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Verb: evoke i'vowk- Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
"evoke sympathy"; - arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, fire, raise, provoke - Make appear or occur
"Her behaviour evoked a quarrel between the couple"; - provoke, call forth, kick up - Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
"We evoked some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"; - educe, elicit, extract, draw out - 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 - Call to mind
"this remark evoked sadness"; - suggest, paint a picture
Derived forms: evoked, evoking, evokes Type of: cause, construe, create, do, engender, evince, express, interpret, make, see, show Encyclopedia: Evoke |