Meaning of EVOKE
| Pronunciation: | | i'vowk
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- [v] call to mind or evoke
- [v] call forth; of emotions, feelings, and responses; "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
- [v] evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
- [v] deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
- [v] call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"
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| | Synonyms: | | arouse, arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, draw out, educe, elicit, elicit, enkindle, extract, fire, invoke, kindle, paint a picture, provoke, put forward, raise, raise, stir, suggest |
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| | See Also: | | anger, ask for, bruise, cause, construe, create, create, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, do, draw, evince, excite, express, fire up, heat, hurt, ignite, imply, incriminate, inculpate, infatuate, inflame, injure, interest, interpret, invite, make, make, offend, overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, pick, prick, reek, rekindle, see, shake, shake up, shame, show, smack, spite, stimulate, stir, stir up, sweep over, untune, upset, wake, whelm, wound | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \E*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Evoked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Evoking}.] [L. evocare; e out + vocare to call, fr. vox,
vocis, voice: cf. F ['e]voquer. See {Voice}, and cf.
{Evocate}.]
1. To call out; to summon forth.
To evoke the queen of the fairies. --T. Warton.
A requlating discipline of exercise, that whilst
evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to
be wasted. --De Quincey.
2. To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. [R.]
``The cause was evoked to Rome.'' --Hume.
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