Dictionary entry details
• EVOKE (verb)
Meaning:
Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
provoke; evoke; elicit; arouse; enkindle; kindle; fire; raise
Context examples:
arouse pity / raise a smile / evoke sympathy
Hypernyms (to "evoke" is one way to...):
create; make (make or cause to be or to become)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "evoke"):
excite (arouse or elicit a feeling)
anger (make angry)
discomfit; discompose; disconcert; untune; upset (cause to lose one's composure)
shame (cause to be ashamed)
bruise; hurt; injure; offend; spite; wound (hurt the feelings of)
overcome; overpower; overtake; overwhelm; sweep over; whelm (overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli)
excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of)
fire up; heat; ignite; inflame; stir up; wake (arouse or excite feelings and passions)
prick (to cause a sharp emotional pain)
infatuate (arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way)
rekindle (arouse again)
draw (elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.)
ask for; invite (increase the likelihood of)
strike a chord; touch a chord (evoke a reaction, response, or emotion)
interest (excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Evoke or provoke to appear or occur
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
call forth; provoke; kick up; evoke
Context example:
Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple
Hypernyms (to "evoke" is one way to...):
cause; do; make (give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "evoke"):
pick (provoke)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
educe; elicit; evoke; extract; draw out
Context example:
We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant
Hypernyms (to "evoke" is one way to...):
construe; interpret; see (make sense of; assign a meaning to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
invoke; conjure up; conjure; call down; bring up; call forth; arouse; put forward; evoke; stir; raise
Context examples:
raise the specter of unemployment / he conjured wild birds in the air / call down the spirits from the mountain
Hypernyms (to "evoke" is one way to...):
create; make (make or cause to be or to become)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "evoke"):
anathemise; anathemize; bedamn; beshrew; curse; damn; imprecate; maledict (wish harm upon; invoke evil upon)
bless (give a benediction to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Call to mind
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
paint a picture; evoke; suggest
Context example:
this remark evoked sadness
Hypernyms (to "evoke" is one way to...):
evince; express; show (give expression to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "evoke"):
reek; smack (have an element suggestive (of something))
imply; incriminate; inculpate (suggest that someone is guilty)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
