evoke

Verb

Verb Forms: evoked, evoking, evokes

• To bring or recall a feeling, memory, or image to mind.
• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
  • "evoke sympathy"
• evoke or provoke to appear or occur
• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
• call to mind
  • "this remark evoked sadness"
• To call out; to draw out or bring forth.
• To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.
• To elicit a response.

Examples

• Being here evokes long forgotten memories.
• Seeing this happen equally evokes fear and anger in me.
• That tricky ’J’ tile can EVOKE a groan from even the most seasoned Words With Friends player.
• The book evokes a detailed and lively picture of what life was like in the 19th century.

Synonyms

arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, draw out, educe, elicit, enkindle, extract, fire, invoke, kick up, kindle, paint a picture, provoke, put forward, raise, stir, suggest, abet, actuate, bring about, cheer, drive, egg on, encourage, engender, evoke, excite, foment, goad, grill, ignite, impel, incite, induce, inflame, inspire, instigate, lash, motivate, motive, move, obligate, oblige, promote, prompt, push, put someone in mind of, rouse, send, set off, spark off, spur, spur on, stimulate, sting, stir up, stoke, tempt, urge, whet, whip up

Related Words

evince, evocate, evocation, invoke