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.
To call out; to summon forth.
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call to mind or evoke
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evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
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deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
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call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"
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call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
v. t.
To call out; to summon forth.
v. t.
To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another.
Evoke
>To evoke the queen of the fairies.
A requlating discipline of exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.2.
To call out; to summon forth.
Usage Examples
The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.
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Other Usage ExamplesDesign must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.
Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.
I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.
Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.
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