Verb

• S: (v) accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken (move faster) "The car accelerated"
• S: (v) whet, quicken (make keen or more acute) "whet my appetite"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) stimulate, excite, stir (stir feelings in) "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions"
• S: (v) sensitize, sensitise (cause to sense; make sensitive) "She sensitized me with respect to gender differences in this traditional male-dominated society"; "My tongue became sensitized to good wine"
• sentence frame
• S: (v) quicken, invigorate (give life or energy to) "The cold water invigorated him"
• S: (v) quicken (show signs of life) "the fetus quickened"
• S: (v) 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"