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1. Make appear or occur
   "Her behaviour called forth a quarrel between the couple";
   - provoke, evoke, kick up [informal]
    
2. Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
   "call forth the spectre of unemployment";
   - raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward

Derived forms: calling forth, calls forth, called forth

See also: call

Type of: call up, cause, do, engender, make, summon