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- Dictionaryevoke/ɪˈvəʊk/
verb
- 1. bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind: "the sight evoked pleasant memories of his childhood"
- 2. invoke (a spirit or deity): "Akasha is evoked in India when a house is being built to ensure its completion"
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The meaning of EVOKE is to call forth or up. How to use evoke in a sentence. evoke or invoke? Synonym Discussion of Evoke.
EVOKE definition: 1. to make someone remember something or feel an emotion: 2. to make someone remember something or…. Learn more.
Some common synonyms of evoke are educe, elicit, extort, and extract. While all these words mean "to draw out something hidden, latent, or reserved," evoke implies a strong stimulus that arouses an emotion or an interest or recalls an image or memory.
To evoke a particular memory, idea, emotion, or response means to cause it to occur.
EVOKE meaning: 1. to make someone remember something or feel an emotion: 2. to make someone remember something or…. Learn more.
The verb evoke most commonly means to bring a feeling, memory, or picture into the mind. When you visit your old elementary school, the smells, sounds, and colors there can evoke memories from the past.
EVOKE meaning: 1 : to bring (a memory, feeling, image, etc.) into the mind; 2 : to cause (a particular reaction or response) to happen.
evoke something to bring a feeling, a memory or an image into your mind. The music evoked memories of her youth. His case is unlikely to evoke public sympathy.
There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb evoke. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
1. To give rise to; draw forth; produce: words that evoked a smile; actions that evoked mistrust. 2. To call to mind, as by suggestion, association, or reference: songs that evoke old memories; a speech that evoked the words of Jefferson. 3. To create anew, especially by means of the imagination: a novel that accurately evokes the Depression. 4.
