quicken

Verb

• give new life or energy to
  • A hot soup will revive me
    
  • This will renovate my spirits
    
  • This treatment repaired my health
    

• show signs of life
  • the fetus quickened
    

• give life or energy to
  • The cold water invigorated him
    

• make keen or more acute
  • whet my appetite
    

• move faster
  • The car accelerated
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  animate , recreate , reanimate , revive , renovate , repair , vivify , revivify , invigorate , whet , accelerate , speed up , speed
• Antonyms: 
  decelerate , slow , slow down , slow up , retard