Verb
- 1. accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken, intensify, deepen
- usage: move faster; "The car accelerated"
- 2. whet, quicken, stimulate, excite, stir
- usage: make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite"
- 3. quicken, invigorate, stimulate, excite
- usage: give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him"
- 4. quicken, move
- usage: show signs of life; "the fetus quickened"
- 5. animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify, stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up
- usage: 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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