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call-up
To select e.g. to a sports squad.
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  1. To select e.g. to a sports squad.
  2. To retrieve from personal or computer memory.
  3. (Idiomatic) To call on the telephone.
conjure-up
(Idiomatic) To generate (an image or an idea) in one's mind.
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  1. (Idiomatic) To generate (an image or an idea) in one's mind.
  2. (Idiomatic) To create or produce something, seemingly magically.
invoke
To call on (a higher power) for assistance, support, or inspiration:
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  1. To call on (a higher power) for assistance, support, or inspiration:
  2. To call forth; cause
  3. To call on (God, a god, a saint, the Muses, etc.) for blessing, help, inspiration, support, etc.
elicit
To draw forth; evoke
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  1. To draw forth; evoke
  2. To call forth, draw out, or provoke (a response or reaction, for example):
  3. To cause to be revealed
provoke
To stir to action or feeling:
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  1. To stir to action or feeling:
  2. To give rise to; bring about:
  3. To bring about deliberately; induce:
draw
To attract audiences
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  1. To attract audiences
  2. To bring about deliberately; provoke:
  3. To compose or write out in legal format:
educe
To infer or work out from given facts:
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  1. To infer or work out from given facts:
  2. To draw or bring out; elicit.
  3. To draw out; elicit
elicit
To cause to be revealed
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  1. To cause to be revealed
  2. To call forth, draw out, or provoke (a response or reaction, for example):
  3. To draw forth; evoke
summon
To bring into existence or readiness. Often used with up:
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  1. To bring into existence or readiness. Often used with up:
  2. To cause one to think of (something); evoke. Often used with up:
  3. To order to come or appear; call for or send for with authority or urgency
Find another word for evoke. In this page you can discover 15 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for evoke, like: summon forth, call-up, conjure-up, invoke, elicit, provoke, draw forth, summon, excite, extract and draw.

Sentence Examples

  • Although local affairs do nut now enlist, even in New England, so large a measure of interest and public spirit as the town system used to evoke in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut in the thirties, still, broadly speaking, the rural local government of America may be deemed satisfactory.

  • This different treatment shows the feeling of the poet - the feeling for which he seeks to evoke our inmost sympathy - to oscillate between the belief that an awful crime brings with it its awful punishment (and it is sickening to observe how the argument by which the Friar persuades Annabella to forsake her evil courses mainly appeals to the physical terrors of retribution), and the notion that there is something fatal, something irresistible, and therefore in a sense self-justified, in so dominant a passion.

  • The story about the country boy managed to evoke nostalgia.

  • In the days when he had composed his huge, immature treatise on the Future of Science, he had written: "I envy the man who shall evoke from the past the origins of Christianity.

  • This despatch failed to evoke any response from the powers, with the single exception of Turkey, but the public agitation against the Congo State regime continued to grow in force, being greatly strengthened by the publication in February 1904 of a report by Mr Roger Casement, then British consul at Boma, on a journey which he had made through the middle Congo region in 1903 (described as the "Upper" Congo in the report).

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