Definitions
1.verbTo give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.
2.verbTo come back to life, receive life.
3.verbTo take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.
4.verbOf 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.
5.verbTo make quicker; to hasten, speed up.
6.verbTo become faster."My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach."
7.verbTo shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper."to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced"