revivify
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- revivification noun
Etymology
Origin of revivify
1665–75; < French révivifier < Late Latin revīvificāre. See re-, vivify
Example Sentences
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In the process, she revivifies the domestic-drama novel, escaping its cliches and intensifying its mood.
From Los Angeles Times
BIRTH/REBIRTH In the summer’s second spin on “Frankenstein” — see “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster,” above — Marin Ireland plays a pathologist who aims to revivify a dead child.
From New York Times
Old family stories are hard to revivify, even when they’re good family stories.
From New York Times
It’s a wishful advertisement for a revivified nation, one swept clean of conflict and damage, a view sustained in the work of his students.
From New York Times
But Jerzy Skolimowski’s formally radical, emotionally wrenching drama about the travails of a donkey is by far this category’s — and perhaps the year’s — most cinematically revivifying achievement.
From Los Angeles Times
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