Pronunciation
Verb
evoke (evokes, present participle evoking; past and past participle evoked)
- To call out; to draw out or bring forth.
- To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.
- Being here evokes long forgotten memories.
- Seeing this happen equally evokes fear and anger in me.
- The book evokes a detailed and lively picture of what life was like in the 19th century.
- To elicit a response.
- French: évoquer, remémorer
- German: hervorrufen
- Portuguese: evocar
- Russian: вызыва́ть
- Spanish: evocar, rememorar
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