Verb: evoke i'vowk
- Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
"evoke sympathy";
- arouse, elicit, enkindle [literary], kindle, raise, provoke
- Call to mind
"this remark evoked sadness";
- suggest, conjure up, conjure
- Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
"The ritual evoked ancient powers";
- raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, call down, arouse, bring up, call forth
- Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
"We evoked some interesting linguistic data from the native informant";
- educe [formal], elicit, extract, draw out
- Make appear or occur
"Her behaviour evoked a quarrel between the couple";
- provoke, call forth, kick up [informal]
Derived forms: evoked, evokes, evoking
Type of: call up, cause, construe, create, do, engender, evince [formal], express, interpret, make, see, show, summon
Encyclopedia: Evoke