quicken
/ˈkwɪkən/
Dictionary
verb
- To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.
- To come back to life, receive life.
- To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.
- 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.
- To make quicker; to hasten, speed up.
- To become faster.
"My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach."
- To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.
"to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced"
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