evoke
to call up or produce (memories, feelings, etc.): to evoke a memory.
to elicit or draw forth: His comment evoked protests from the shocked listeners.
to call up; cause to appear; summon: to evoke a spirit from the dead.
to produce or suggest through artistry and imagination a vivid impression of reality: a short passage that manages to evoke the smells, colors, sounds, and shapes of that metropolis.
Origin of evoke
1Other words from evoke
- e·vok·er, noun
- un·e·voked, adjective
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How to use evoke in a sentence
It’s hard to tell what’s going on fully, and there’s like the sense of mystery here which is being evoked.
Its command of artificial intelligence, packaged into a software offering whose name evoked its founding family, would cure cancer.
IBM finally gets rid of some business to focus on the one that matters | Adam Lashinsky | October 9, 2020 | FortuneYou see something that evokes strong emotions, and each time you see it, that emotion comes up.
How border walls trick the human brain and psyche | Jessica Wapner | October 2, 2020 | Popular-ScienceFurthermore, if asked to recall the emotional tone of a past event, you are more likely evoke a field memory, while if asked to recall facts of an event, you are more likely to call forth an observer memory.
There’s no other season that evokes the senses quite like fall.
She was sure that Dora was not the only evoker of the unbounded satisfaction in Bryce Denning's face and manner.
The Man Between | Amelia E. BarrSudermann is still Klingsor, the evoker of artificial figures, not the poet who creates living men and women.
Ivory Apes and Peacocks | James HunekerThe voice ceased and the evoker offered a prayer of adoration.
Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, First Series | Lady GregoryI did not, and the seeress did not, and the evoker of spirits did not and could not.
Ideas of Good and Evil | William Butler YeatsThe evoker of spirits said they must be making some kind of masonic house.
Ideas of Good and Evil | William Butler Yeats
British Dictionary definitions for evoke
/ (ɪˈvəʊk) /
to call or summon up (a memory, feeling, etc), esp from the past
to call forth or provoke; produce; elicit: his words evoked an angry reply
to cause (spirits) to appear; conjure up
Origin of evoke
1evoke
Derived forms of evoke
- evocable (ˈɛvəkəbəl), adjective
- evoker, noun
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