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1. Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
   "evoke sympathy";
   - arouse, elicit, enkindle [literary], kindle, fire, raise, provoke
    
2. Make appear or occur
   "Her behaviour evoked a quarrel between the couple";
   - provoke, call forth, kick up [informal]
    
3. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
   "We evoked some interesting linguistic data from the native informant";
   - educe [formal], elicit, extract, draw out
    
4. Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
   "evoke the spectre of unemployment";
   - raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
    
5. Call to mind
   "this remark evoked sadness";
   - suggest, paint a picture

Derived forms: evoked, evoking, evokes

See also: take out

Type of: call up, cause, construe, create, do, engender, evince [formal], express, interpret, make, see, show, summon

Encyclopedia: Evoke