quickened

/K W IH1 K AH0 N D/

verb

1
To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.
2
To come back to life, receive life.
3
To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.
4
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.
5
To make quicker; to hasten, speed up.
6
To become faster.
“My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach.”
7
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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