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quickeners

quickeners is the plural of quickener.

Meaning of quickener

Noun

quickener (plural quickeners)

  1. One who, or that which, quickens, hastens, or speeds up an object or action.
    Synonyms:
    catalyst
  2. That which gives life, animates, or nourishes.
    • Where, through the deep, rich soil enwound,
      The waters of Dirce flow?
      Nourisher she of man and mead,
      Quencher of thirst and quickener of seed;1922, “The Seven against Thebes”, in Geoffrey Montagu Cookson, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 124

Questions about quickeners

What is quickeners the plural of?
Quickeners is the plural of quickener.

Words near quickeners in the dictionary

  1. quickenance
  2. quickened
  3. quickened up
  4. quickenedst
  5. quickener
  6. quickeners
  7. quickenest
  8. quickeneth
  9. quickening
  10. quickening up
  11. quickeningly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quickeners (page history and authors); quickener (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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