quicken

Definitions

• (transitive) To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.
• (intransitive) To come back to life, receive life.
• (intransitive) To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.
• (intransitive) Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.
• (transitive) To make quicker; to hasten, speed up.
• (intransitive) To become faster.
• (shipbuilding) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.