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"
8.nounAn increase of speed.
9.nounThe action of bringing someone or something to life.
10.nounThe first noticable movements of a foetus during pregnancy, or the period when this occurs.
11.nounStimulation, excitement (of a feeling, emotion etc.).