1. Move faster
   - accelerate, speed up, speed 
2. Make keen or more acute
   - whet 
3. Give life or energy to
   - invigorate 
4. Show signs of life
   "the foetus quickened" 
5. Give new life or energy to
   - animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, vivify, revivify

Derived forms: quickened, quickening, quickens

See also: quickener, quickening

Type of: arouse, brace, deepen, energise [Brit], energize, excite, intensify, move, perk up, stimulate, stir

Encyclopedia: Quicken

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