evokeverb [ T ]
uk/ɪˈvəʊk/us/ɪˈvoʊk/to make someone remember something or feel an emotion:
That smell always evokes memories of my old school.
a detergent designed to evoke the fresh smell of summer meadows
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Remembering, reminding and reminders
- a blast from the past idiom
- aide-mémoire
- be engraved on sb's memory/mind idiom
- be etched on/in sb's memory idiom
- be your epitaph idiom
- clock
- echo
- indelible
- jog sb's memory idiom
- keepsake
- let's see idiom
- look back
- pat
- recall
- ring a bell idiom
- souvenir
- stamped on sb's memory idiom
- stick in sb's mind/head/memory idiom
- store
- take sb back
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evocation
noun [ C or U ] uk/ˌiː.vəˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌev.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/