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Verb: evoke  i'vowk
  1. Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
    "evoke sympathy"
    - arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, fire, raise, provoke
     
  2. Evoke or provoke to appear or occur
    - provoke, call forth, kick up
     
  3. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
    - educe, elicit, extract, draw out
     
  4. Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
    - 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: evokes, evoked, evoking

See also: evocation, evocative

Type of: cause, construe, create, do, evince, express, interpret, make, see, show

Encyclopedia: Evoke