"evoke" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ɪˈvəʊk/ [UK], /ɪˈvoʊk/ [US] Audio: en-us-evoke.ogg , en-au-evoke.ogg Forms: evokes [present, singular, third-person], evoking [participle, present], evoked [participle, past], evoked [past]
Rhymes: -əʊk Etymology: From French évoquer, from Latin ēvocō (“to call out, summon”), from ex (“out”) and vocō (“call”). Akin to voice. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*wekʷ-}}, {{der|en|fr|évoquer}} French évoquer, {{der|en|la|ēvocō|t=to call out, summon}} Latin ēvocō (“to call out, summon”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} evoke (third-person singular simple present evokes, present participle evoking, simple past and past participle evoked)
  1. (transitive) To call out; to draw out or bring forth. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-evoke-en-verb-HA6ofSnB
  2. (transitive) To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination. Tags: transitive Synonyms: put someone in mind of Translations (to cause the manifestation of): اِسْتَحْضَارَ (istaḥḍāra) (Arabic), اِسْتَدَعَى (istadaʕā) (Arabic), հարուցել (harucʻel) (Armenian), առաջացնել (aṙaǰacʻnel) (Armenian), предизвиквам (predizvikvam) (Bulgarian), събуждам (sǎbuždam) (Bulgarian), evocar (Catalan), 喚起 (Chinese Mandarin), 唤起 (huànqǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), vyvolat (Czech), vyvolávat (Czech), evokovat (Czech), fremmane (Danish), fremkalde (Danish), vække (Danish), oproepen (Dutch), elvoki (Esperanto), herättää (Finnish), synnyttää (Finnish), évoquer (French), remémorer (French), evocar (Galician), hervorrufen (German), heraufbeschwören (German), עורר (Hebrew), felidéz (Hungarian), evocar (Interlingua), rememorar (Interlingua), rammemorare (note: "rammemorarsi" exists) (Italian), 喚起する (kanki-suru) (alt: かんきする) (Japanese), ēvōcō (Latin), framkalle (Norwegian), wywoływać (Polish), przywoływać (Polish), evocar (Portuguese), вызыва́ть (vyzyvátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), вы́звать (výzvatʹ) [perfective] (Russian), evocar (Spanish), rememorar (Spanish), frammana (Swedish)
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  3. (transitive) To elicit a response. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-evoke-en-verb-2DPT08YX
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: evocable, reevoke, re-evoke, reëvoke Related terms: evince, evocate, evocation, invoke

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Seeing this happen equally evokes fear and anger in me.",
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        "(transitive) To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination."
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          "word": "اِسْتَحْضَارَ"
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          "word": "հարուցել"
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          "word": "առաջացնել"
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          "roman": "sǎbuždam",
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
          "word": "喚起"
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          "roman": "huànqǐ",
          "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
          "word": "唤起"
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          "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
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    {
      "word": "evocable"
    },
    {
      "word": "reevoke"
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        "2": "la",
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      "word": "evince"
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      "word": "evocate"
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      "word": "evocation"
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      "word": "invoke"
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        "To call out; to draw out or bring forth."
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          "draw out",
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          "bring forth",
          "bring forth"
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        "(transitive) To call out; to draw out or bring forth."
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          "text": "Being here evokes long forgotten memories.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "Seeing this happen equally evokes fear and anger in me.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The book evokes a detailed and lively picture of what life was like in the 19th century.",
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        "To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination."
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        "(transitive) To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination."
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        {
          "ref": "1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 98:",
          "text": "The outstanding train on the L.M.S. route was the 6.20 p.m. from Birmingham, which reached Euston in two hours after intermediate stops at Coventry, Rugby and Watford Junction, and evoked some sparkling performances from \"Patriot\" and \"Jubilee\" 4-6-0s.",
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        "(transitive) To elicit a response."
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      "rhymes": "-əʊk"
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        "UK"
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      "ipa": "/ɪˈvoʊk/",
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "istaḥḍāra",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "اِسْتَحْضَارَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "istadaʕā",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "اِسْتَدَعَى"
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    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "harucʻel",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "հարուցել"
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      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "aṙaǰacʻnel",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "առաջացնել"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "predizvikvam",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "предизвиквам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sǎbuždam",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "събуждам"
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "evocar"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "喚起"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huànqǐ",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "唤起"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "vyvolat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "vyvolávat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "evokovat"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "fremmane"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "fremkalde"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "vække"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "oproepen"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "elvoki"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "herättää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "synnyttää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "évoquer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "remémorer"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "evocar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "hervorrufen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "heraufbeschwören"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "עורר"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "felidéz"
    },
    {
      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "evocar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "rememorar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "note": "\"rammemorarsi\" exists",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "rammemorare"
    },
    {
      "alt": "かんきする",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kanki-suru",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "喚起する"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "ēvōcō"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "framkalle"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "wywoływać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "przywoływać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "evocar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vyzyvátʹ",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "вызыва́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "výzvatʹ",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "вы́звать"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "evocar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "rememorar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to cause the manifestation of",
      "word": "frammana"
    }
  ],
  "word": "evoke"
}

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