quickened
Meaning
of Quicken
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
After a final, January 1939, legal defeat for C&S in the Supreme Court, the pace of the talks quickened, and on February 1, 1939, C&S sold the assets to the TVA for $78.6 million.
In 1849 the Parsis established their first school (co-educational, which was a novelty at the time, but would soon be split into separate schools for boys and girls) and the education movement quickened.
But plans quickened after the centennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, in 1909.
DeGagne noticed "a folk-filled tinge to each song, but the occasional quickened pace balances out these tunes rather nicely".
But if its confrontational posture quickened the pace of racial change, it also provoked a visceral reaction in white Americans who, almost overwhelmingly, could more easily identify with civil-rights activists than with black-power militants.
Her steps quickened.