quicken
verb (used with object)
to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten.
am quickening
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present progressiveof quicken (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Like a traveller, I am quickening my steps in proportion as I approach the term of my course.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
