evoke

[ ih-vohk ]

/ ɪˈvoʊk /

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verb (used with object), e·voked, e·vok·ing.

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.

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Origin of evoke

1615–25; <Latin ēvocāre, equivalent to ē-e-¹ + vocāre to call (akin to vōxvoice)

OTHER WORDS FROM evoke

e·vok·er, nounun·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.
AI Reads Human Emotions. Should it?|Tate Ryan-Mosley|October 14, 2020|MIT Technology Review
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|Fortune
You 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-Science
Furthermore, 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.
You can’t completely trust your memories|David Linden|September 30, 2020|Popular-Science

There’s no other season that evokes the senses quite like fall.
7 Candles That Smell Exactly Like Fall|Jasmine Grant|September 28, 2020|Essence.com
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. Barr
Sudermann is still Klingsor, the evoker of artificial figures, not the poet who creates living men and women.
Ivory Apes and Peacocks|James Huneker
The voice ceased and the evoker offered a prayer of adoration.
Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, First Series|Lady Gregory
I did not, and the seeress did not, and the evoker of spirits did not and could not.
Ideas of Good and Evil|William Butler Yeats
The 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

evoke

/ (ɪˈvəʊk) /

verb (tr)

to call or summon up (a memory, feeling, etc), esp from the past

to call forth or provoke; produce; elicithis words evoked an angry reply

to cause (spirits) to appear; conjure up

Derived forms of evoke

evocable (ˈɛvəkəbəl), adjectiveevoker, noun

Word Origin for evoke

C17: from Latin ēvocāre to call forth, from vocāre to call

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See evince, invoke

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