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
Words Nearby evoke
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How to use evoke in a sentence
More common, though, are pictures whose multilevel patterns sprawl every which way, evoking anything from starry skies and microscopic cells to the tapestries woven by her ancestors.
In the galleries: Exploring the tension between physical and digital art | Mark Jenkins | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostIn normal times, the 40-year-old living in his parents’ small Virginia home evoked plenty of suspicion.
With children stuck at home during coronavirus shutdowns, online sexual predators can swoop in | Dan Morse | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostDespite being over one hundred years apart, one riot to overturn an election evoked the other.
Our Radicalized Republic | Maggie Koerth (maggie.koerth-baker@fivethirtyeight.com) | January 25, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightOn a gray afternoon last November, I sat down to a meal that evoked Istanbul cafes where just the year before I had feasted at the edge of the sun-streaked Bosporus.
Take a culinary journey with these new travel-inspired cookbooks | Jen Rose Smith | January 22, 2021 | Washington PostA consensus has emerged in Maryland and beyond that it’s unacceptable for government entities to keep monuments to Confederate figures on display, as, to many Americans, they evoke forms of unthinkable injustice.
Activists promise to continue fight against ‘Talbot Boys’ Confederate monument | Jonathan M. Pitts | January 20, 2021 | Washington Post
At Michigan, he would be a formidable recruiter, able to evoke the tradition of his former iconic coach, Bo Schembechler.
Is Any College Football Coach Worth $60 Million? Jim Harbaugh Is | Jesse Lawrence | December 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMeanwhile younger, lighter colors evoke citrus and tree fruits, candy sugars and vanilla toffee.
Why Natural Color Is So Crucial To Understanding A Whisky’s Flavors | | December 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThankfully, the piece did not try to evoke the Internet through tired dance gestures or pseudo-digital music.
Sneer and Clothing in Miami: Inside The $3 Billion Woodstock of Contemporary Art | Jay Michaelson | December 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHer novels typically evoke this pinched sense of an era—raw individuals in raw times.
Sarah Waters: Queen of the Tortured Lesbian Romance | Tim Teeman | September 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHer skin radiates deep golden-brown and her light olive eyes evoke the iconic 1985 National Geographic cover of an Afghan girl.
It simply finds relation already existing between the words or the ideas which the words suggest or evoke.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)The soul, instinctively appreciative of beauty, will under the most adverse circumstances, evoke congenial visions.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottHe knew that his death would evoke a new spirit of inquiry, which would spread over the civilized world.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordIn such, or fitter words, does Camille evoke the Elemental Powers, in this great moment.
A Wanderer in Paris | E. V. LucasThe mere sight of a loaf of bread anywhere was enough to evoke guffaws.
Bread Overhead | Fritz Reuter Leiber
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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