Open English Wordnet
Verbs
(v)whet, quickenmake keen or more acute“whet my appetite” (v)quickenshow signs of life“the fetus quickened” (v)animate, recreate1, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivifygive new life or energy to“A hot soup will revive me”,
“This will renovate my spirits”,
“This treatment repaired my health”