quicken

fe’l verb

1. To become faster. My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach.
2. To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper. to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced
3. To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.
4. To come back to life, receive life.

ot noun

1. The European rowan, Sorbus aucuparia.