revivify

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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 • May 24, 2023

The effect of the literal trains and the physical doors is to revivify concepts that are so much a part of popular consciousness that they have become abstract, almost generic.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 6, 2019

If anyone can revivify the Frankenstein story, it’s adventurous, prize-winning British writer Jeanette Winterson.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2019

But Stevenson has also created a new dynamic of collection and dispersal to help revivify memory of the state’s ugly and sordid past.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2018

He told all this to his benumbed consciousness, but it failed to revivify the soul within him.

From The Hills of Refuge A Novel by Harben, Will N. (Will Nathaniel)