EVOKE
Definition:
- [verb] call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, fire, raise, provoke
- [verb] call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"
Synonyms: provoke, call forth, kick up
- [verb] deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
Synonyms: educe, elicit, extract, draw out
- [verb] 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"
Synonyms: raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
- [verb] call to mind or evoke
Synonyms: suggest, paint a picture
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Related Words:
- strike a chord, touch a chord
- invite, ask for
- draw
- rekindle
- infatuate
- prick
- inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat, fire up
- stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
- excite
- anger
- upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit
- shame
- hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite
- overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake
- interest
- pick
- curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict
- bless
- smack, reek
- incriminate, imply, inculpate
