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Definition of evoke in English: evokeverb ɪˈvəʊkəˈvoʊk [with object]1Bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind. the sight evoked pleasant memories of his childhood Example sentencesExamples - To my mind it succeeds in evoking the excitement and interest inherent in mathematics but so often overshadowed by complexity and social fear.
- The representation of the disabled has historically been heavily stereotyped with aversive images that evoke pity and fear.
- As he discusses individual musicians, he illustrates how art intensifies human experiences and how music evokes powerful emotions and memories.
- Memories of Ireland evoked a sadness, even bitterness, that cast a long shadow over the experience of family in the United States.
- This little temple is a true artistic achievement because it causes a shift in consciousness and evokes those feelings that we commonly call spiritual.
- Exchanging stories and memories of the lost servicemen have evoked complex feelings, they said.
- He smelled like strawberries, an innocent summery scent that flooded over and through me, evoking memories and images of a time not so long gone.
- It captures honest moments of weirdness, but it also manipulates images and music to evoke emotion.
- On seeing the picture, it evoked pleasant memories of times spent at school in the past.
- I really need to jog my memory to evoke images of the place.
- So these things have to be handled very, very delicately, and the way I'm trying to do that is to evoke a sense of memory as opposed to a sense of anger.
- Clearly, these kinds of images of the miserable at play will evoke horror in the minds of every sane person.
- A sudden change from a familiar system to another evokes doubt in the minds of the public.
- The narration, music and images combined to evoke fear and loathing in my impressionable pre-teen mind!
- Words are flashing in my mind, recollections of a time past, evoking specific feelings, recalling certain events, ones I do not wish to recollect.
- They are gruesome and evoke fear in the minds of their devotees; not love.
- Peaches evoke memories and bring out the best of summertime activities.
- Less easily quantified will be the emotions evoked by the memory of Persian Punch, who won 20 races in his career, the last of them on the Heath exactly a year ago.
- The bird in hand image immediately evoked a memory I had from childhood.
- What's to say there's not a homeless soul on a cold Dublin street who occasionally glances at a digital photo - using the memories evoked by the image to hold onto reality for yet another day.
Synonyms bring to mind, call to mind, put one in mind of, call up, conjure up, summon up, summon, invoke, give rise to, bring forth, elicit, induce, kindle, stimulate, stir up, awaken, arouse, excite, raise, suggest - 1.1 Elicit (a response)
the Green Paper evoked critical reactions from various bodies Example sentencesExamples - On the other hand, crying evokes physiological responses that increase the production of stress hormones.
- The short man glared at him, displeased that he evoked no response.
- The result evoked an angry response from demonstrators outside.
- In subjects with reduced androgen levels, stimuli that normally evoke a stress response are significantly less potent.
- The use of the word ‘pepper’ came into existence when it was observed that chili evoked a similar response to that of black pepper.
- Such heady language evoked a strong response among political refugees who were indeed sharpening the sword of vengeance on their own suffering.
- The forecast evokes dismissive responses from auctioneering and estate agency spokespeople
- A sociobiologist evokes much the same responses from his traditional behavioural science colleagues as would a Marxist in a business school.
- The book has evoked responses from people living with brain damage and members of the medical profession as well as those who've read it as a family story.
- The doctors said that if any response was evoked it was among a few middle aged and elderly patients who were already highly motivated to modify their drinking behaviour.
- The number of stimuli per 10-sec stimulation train that failed to evoke any muscular response was recorded.
- The principal reason for this is that poetry evokes a pre-determined response.
- Jewels, which have a definite presence in most of the counters, evoke a good response from the customers.
- Stress related factors might also influence interpretations of abuse, and evoke different responses in the victims of abuse.
- In particular, this perspective evoked a big response from young people.
- Is it possible the movie set out to evoke a cinematic response in the spectator to mimic the characters' internal quandaries?
- He thought that a circle of a particular colour touching a triangle at a specific juncture could evoke the same response in the viewer as the hand of God touching Adam in the Sistine chapel.
- Stalking, once established as a social problem, evoked a rapid response from the criminal justice system.
- Full of existential angst and loneliness, her paintings are able to evoke an empathetic response from the viewer.
- A second argument holds that a modified procedure might evoke negative responses in patients, leading to a decreased willingness to participate in future research.
Synonyms bring to mind, call to mind, put one in mind of, call up, conjure up, summon up, summon, invoke, give rise to, bring forth, elicit, induce, kindle, stimulate, stir up, awaken, arouse, excite, raise, suggest
2Invoke (a spirit or deity) Akasha is evoked in India when a house is being built to ensure its completion Example sentencesExamples - Necromancy is only black magic, because it neither evokes spirits or heals.
- After three days of life, a shaman evokes a soul to be reincarnated in the baby's body.
- This skirt could represent the living space of the future married woman - her house, her neighborhood, and her fields - while also evoking the opposing spirits Lo'a and Netlaang.
- To evoke the Deities, raise the clasped hands to the center of the forehead.
- Note that if you do choose to evoke the deity, you will enter a Gnostic trance and you may therefore forget what happened while you were under the trance.
- Every year at Beltane the High Priestess evoked the goddess and all prayed to her for prosperous times in the coming harvest.
- It's going to the edge to spontaneously improvise and evoke the inner spirit.
- Often the spirit is evoked outside of the magicians protective circle into a defined and sealed area.
Synonyms bring to mind, call to mind, put one in mind of, call up, conjure up, summon up, summon, invoke, give rise to, bring forth, elicit, induce, kindle, stimulate, stir up, awaken, arouse, excite, raise, suggest
Derivatives noun We like certain old cars because we find them aesthetically satisfying and sometimes very beautiful, historically interesting and often powerful evokers of youthful passions. Example sentencesExamples - Coleman notes the ‘ritualization’ of repetitive language in Wideman's black idiom and traces that use of language to ‘its nonlinear function as evoker of the timeless qualities and values of the black community’.
Origin Early 17th century (in sense 2): from Latin evocare, from e- (variant of ex-) 'out of, from' + vocare 'to call'. voice from Middle English: A word derived from Latin vox ‘voice’ and is related to vocabulary (mid 16th century), vocal (Middle English), vocation (Late Middle English), and vociferous (early 17th century), while the verb vocare ‘to call’ appears in convoke (late 16th century) ‘call together’; equivocate (Late Middle English) literally ‘call by the same name’; evoke (early 17th century) ‘call out’; invoke (Late Middle English) ‘call upon’; provoke (Late Middle English) ‘call forth’; revoke (Late Middle English) ‘call back’; and vouch (Middle English) and voucher (early 16th century). Vowel (Middle English) is from Old French vouel, from Latin vocalis (littera) ‘vocal (letter)’. The Latin root survives in vox pop, ‘an informal survey of people's opinion’, which is short for Latin vox populi or ‘voice of the people’. When people refer to an ignored advocate of reform as a voice in the wilderness they are echoing the words of John the Baptist proclaiming the coming of the Messiah: ‘I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness.’
Rhymes awoke, bespoke, bloke, broke, choke, cloak, Coke, convoke, croak, folk, invoke, joke, Koch, moke, oak, okey-doke, poke, provoke, revoke, roque, smoke, soak, soke, spoke, stoke, stony-broke (US stone-broke), stroke, toke, toque, woke, yoke, yolk Definition of evoke in US English: evokeverbəˈvoʊkəˈvōk [with object]1Bring or recall to the conscious mind. the sight of American asters evokes pleasant memories of childhood Example sentencesExamples - He smelled like strawberries, an innocent summery scent that flooded over and through me, evoking memories and images of a time not so long gone.
- Clearly, these kinds of images of the miserable at play will evoke horror in the minds of every sane person.
- Peaches evoke memories and bring out the best of summertime activities.
- So these things have to be handled very, very delicately, and the way I'm trying to do that is to evoke a sense of memory as opposed to a sense of anger.
- They are gruesome and evoke fear in the minds of their devotees; not love.
- I really need to jog my memory to evoke images of the place.
- This little temple is a true artistic achievement because it causes a shift in consciousness and evokes those feelings that we commonly call spiritual.
- On seeing the picture, it evoked pleasant memories of times spent at school in the past.
- As he discusses individual musicians, he illustrates how art intensifies human experiences and how music evokes powerful emotions and memories.
- Memories of Ireland evoked a sadness, even bitterness, that cast a long shadow over the experience of family in the United States.
- The bird in hand image immediately evoked a memory I had from childhood.
- Less easily quantified will be the emotions evoked by the memory of Persian Punch, who won 20 races in his career, the last of them on the Heath exactly a year ago.
- Exchanging stories and memories of the lost servicemen have evoked complex feelings, they said.
- Words are flashing in my mind, recollections of a time past, evoking specific feelings, recalling certain events, ones I do not wish to recollect.
- The representation of the disabled has historically been heavily stereotyped with aversive images that evoke pity and fear.
- The narration, music and images combined to evoke fear and loathing in my impressionable pre-teen mind!
- A sudden change from a familiar system to another evokes doubt in the minds of the public.
- To my mind it succeeds in evoking the excitement and interest inherent in mathematics but so often overshadowed by complexity and social fear.
- It captures honest moments of weirdness, but it also manipulates images and music to evoke emotion.
- What's to say there's not a homeless soul on a cold Dublin street who occasionally glances at a digital photo - using the memories evoked by the image to hold onto reality for yet another day.
Synonyms bring to mind, call to mind, put one in mind of, call up, conjure up, summon up, summon, invoke, give rise to, bring forth, elicit, induce, kindle, stimulate, stir up, awaken, arouse, excite, raise, suggest - 1.1 Elicit (a response)
the awkward kid who evoked giggles from his sisters Example sentencesExamples - A second argument holds that a modified procedure might evoke negative responses in patients, leading to a decreased willingness to participate in future research.
- The doctors said that if any response was evoked it was among a few middle aged and elderly patients who were already highly motivated to modify their drinking behaviour.
- On the other hand, crying evokes physiological responses that increase the production of stress hormones.
- Such heady language evoked a strong response among political refugees who were indeed sharpening the sword of vengeance on their own suffering.
- He thought that a circle of a particular colour touching a triangle at a specific juncture could evoke the same response in the viewer as the hand of God touching Adam in the Sistine chapel.
- The result evoked an angry response from demonstrators outside.
- In particular, this perspective evoked a big response from young people.
- The use of the word ‘pepper’ came into existence when it was observed that chili evoked a similar response to that of black pepper.
- Jewels, which have a definite presence in most of the counters, evoke a good response from the customers.
- Full of existential angst and loneliness, her paintings are able to evoke an empathetic response from the viewer.
- In subjects with reduced androgen levels, stimuli that normally evoke a stress response are significantly less potent.
- The number of stimuli per 10-sec stimulation train that failed to evoke any muscular response was recorded.
- The forecast evokes dismissive responses from auctioneering and estate agency spokespeople
- The short man glared at him, displeased that he evoked no response.
- Is it possible the movie set out to evoke a cinematic response in the spectator to mimic the characters' internal quandaries?
- The principal reason for this is that poetry evokes a pre-determined response.
- The book has evoked responses from people living with brain damage and members of the medical profession as well as those who've read it as a family story.
- Stalking, once established as a social problem, evoked a rapid response from the criminal justice system.
- A sociobiologist evokes much the same responses from his traditional behavioural science colleagues as would a Marxist in a business school.
- Stress related factors might also influence interpretations of abuse, and evoke different responses in the victims of abuse.
Synonyms bring to mind, call to mind, put one in mind of, call up, conjure up, summon up, summon, invoke, give rise to, bring forth, elicit, induce, kindle, stimulate, stir up, awaken, arouse, excite, raise, suggest
2Invoke (a spirit or deity). Example sentencesExamples - Often the spirit is evoked outside of the magicians protective circle into a defined and sealed area.
- Note that if you do choose to evoke the deity, you will enter a Gnostic trance and you may therefore forget what happened while you were under the trance.
- This skirt could represent the living space of the future married woman - her house, her neighborhood, and her fields - while also evoking the opposing spirits Lo'a and Netlaang.
- Every year at Beltane the High Priestess evoked the goddess and all prayed to her for prosperous times in the coming harvest.
- To evoke the Deities, raise the clasped hands to the center of the forehead.
- It's going to the edge to spontaneously improvise and evoke the inner spirit.
- Necromancy is only black magic, because it neither evokes spirits or heals.
- After three days of life, a shaman evokes a soul to be reincarnated in the baby's body.
Synonyms bring to mind, call to mind, put one in mind of, call up, conjure up, summon up, summon, invoke, give rise to, bring forth, elicit, induce, kindle, stimulate, stir up, awaken, arouse, excite, raise, suggest
Origin Early 17th century (in evoke (sense 2)): from Latin evocare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of, from’ + vocare ‘to call’. |