Quickens meaning : To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive. To come back to life, receive life. To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited. Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move. To make quicker; to hasten, speed up. To become faster. To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper. A weed, quitch.