1. Make appear or occur
   "Her behaviour called forth a quarrel between the couple";
   - provoke, evoke, kick up [informal]
    
2. Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
   "she called forth reserves of courage";
   - raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, call down, arouse, bring up

Derived forms: calls forth, calling forth, called forth

Type of: call up, cause, do, engender, make, summon