"quickens" in the verb sense
1. accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken
move faster
"The car accelerated"
2. whet, quicken
make keen or more acute
"whet my appetite"
3. quicken, invigorate
give life or energy to
"The cold water invigorated him"
4. quicken
show signs of life
"the fetus quickened"
5. animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify
give new life or energy to
"A hot soup will revive me"
"This will renovate my spirits"
"This treatment repaired my health"
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