reviver
- a word derived from revive.
Example Sentences
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Instead, the rapturous reception and £1.3bn-plus worldwide gross are clear indicators that Abrams, 49, is now Hollywood’s most trusted reviver of ailing franchises.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2016
He was the prime reviver of our ragged, treasured art.
From Time ● Jun. 21, 2012
Don’t forget that there’s also a corpse reviver No. 1.
From Slate ● Dec. 30, 2011
Its growth as an arts institution was fueled by Wade F. B. Thompson, a nearby resident and reviver of the Airstream trailer line who died in 2009.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2011
But just as the ballad is the appointed reviver of poetry, so is romance the appointed reviver of prose-fiction: and in one form or another it will surely do its work, sooner or later.
From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George
