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quicked

quicked is the simple past and past participle of quick.

Meaning of quick

Verb

quick (third-person singular simple present quicks, present participle quicking, simple past and past participle quicked)

  1. (transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
  2. (archaic, poetic, transitive) To quicken.
    • I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.1917, Thomas Hardy, At the Word ‘Farewell’

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Questions about quicked

What is quicked the simple past and past participle of?
Quicked is the simple past and past participle of quick.

Words near quicked in the dictionary

  1. quickbreads
  2. quickdraw
  3. quickdraws
  4. quickdrop
  5. quicke
  6. quicked
  7. quickehatch
  8. quickehatches
  9. quickely
  10. quicken
  11. quicken up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quicked (page history and authors); quick (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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