Quickening

What do we mean by quickening?

To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.

To come back to life, receive life.

To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.

Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.

To make quicker; to hasten, speed up.

To become faster.

To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.

An ephemeral thing that only happens in the dark like catching lightning in a jar. Urban Dictionary

The practice of inviting several potential sexual partners to the same place and allowing them to compete for your attention until all are eliminated and one or more are left victorious. Urban Dictionary

When you pay a discount rate for a dry handjob while on a business trip to a rural area. The Quicken Loans Cattle Handle usually occurs in the backseat of a crew cab Chevy 2x4, while the handjobist's father is trying to buy dip in the Love's Gas Station. If timed improperly the Quicken Loans Cattle Handle can have disastrous results, including STI's, Blueballs or a Napoleon Complex. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to quickening:
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Words that rhyme with quickening:
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