swiftenv.
/ˈswɪft(ə)n/ rare.
1. transitive. To make swift or swifter, hasten.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (transitive)] > put on (speed) > accelerate
festinate1556
accelerate1570
quicken1605
swiften1638
urgea1721
press1742
smarten1825
speed1856
to hit up1893
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > do, deal with, acquire, etc., quickly [verb (transitive)] > cause to be done rapidly > hasten or hurry
hiec1320
skinda1325
rape?a1400
acceleratec1522
hasten?1537
precipitate1558
swiften1638
hurry1713
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 202 Our Ambassador to swiften his dispatch, visited..the grand Favorite Mahomet Ally-beg.
1647 R. Boyle in T. Birch Life R. Boyle in R. Boyle Wks. (1772) I. p. xxxix The dictionary, whose edition, had my wishes the power to swiften it, should be very sudden.
2. intransitive. To become swift or swifter; loosely, to move swiftly, hasten, hurry.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (intransitive)] > increase speed
to go betc1386
to mend one's pace1592
quicken1617
echea1644
accelerate1661
swiften1839
to step on the gas1916
to pull one's finger out1919
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 8 The thought comes swiftening over us Like a small bird winging the still blue air.
1889 Scribner's Mag. May 603 High places where on quiet afternoon A shadow swiftens by.
Derivatives
swiftening adj.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [adjective]
swiftc888
swifta1050
currentc1300
quickc1300
hastivea1325
hastyc1330
ingnel1340
swiftyc1380
speedfula1387
fasta1400
swippingc1420
speedy1487
fleet1528
tite?a1540
scudding1545
flighty1552
suddenly1556
flight1581
feathered1587
Pegasean1590
wing-footed1591
swift-winged?1592
thought-swift-flying1595
wind-winged?1596
swallow-winged1597
Pegasarian1607
skelping1607
rapid1608
night-swifta1616
celerious1632
clipping1635
perniciousa1656
volatile1655
quick-foot1658
meteorous1667
windy1697
high-flying1710
fleet-footed1726
aliped1727
wickc1760
velocious1775
flight-performing1785
fast-going1800
fast-moving1802
meteor1803
wight-wapping1830
fleety1841
speeding1847
swiftening1848
two-forty1855
fire-swift1865
pennate1870
spinning1882
percursory1884
zippy1889
meteoric1895
pacy1906
presto1952
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton King Arthur ii. lxxviii Still, while he sped, the swifter wings that lead Seem'd to rebuke for sloth the swiftening steed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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