regenerator

[ ri-jen-uh-rey-ter ]

noun

1. a person or thing that regenerates.
2. (in a regenerative furnace) a chamber filled with checkerwork that is repeatedly heated by exhaust gases in order to heat air that is passed through it.

Word History and Origins

Origin of regenerator¹

First recorded in 1730–40; regenerate + -or ²

Example Sentences

“She is the river, the flower, the bud. She is the regenerator. Her faith in her offspring is always alive.”

From Literature

"I don't think I could exist if I wasn't able to sleep. I had to get rest because I feel it's a regenerator. So sleep is a very big part and certainly vodka. Because, I mean, it's just so great to be able to unwind with a cocktail," she said.

From Fox News

Researchers out of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine showed that pigs with damaged livers were able to use their own hepatocytes - a type of liver cell that functions as a natural regenerator, to grow a new organ in their lymph nodes, according to the study in journal Liver Transplantation.

From Fox News

I mean, even on Star Trek a dermal regenerator could only do so much.

From The Guardian

“Sixty-five million Germans yielded to the blandishments and magnetism of this slender man . . . whose fervor and demagogy swept everything before him with outstretched arms as the savior and regenerator of the Fatherland,” the New York Times wrote in May 1945.

From Washington Post