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e⋅voke

  [i-vohk]
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–verb (used with object), e⋅voked, e⋅vok⋅ing.
1. to call up or produce (memories, feelings, etc.): to evoke a memory.
2. to elicit or draw forth: His comment evoked protests from the shocked listeners.
3. to call up; cause to appear; summon: to evoke a spirit from the dead.
4. to produce or suggest through artistry and imagination a vivid impression of reality: a short passage that manages to evoke the smells, colors, sounds, and shapes of that metropolis.
Origin:
1615–25; < L ēvocāre, equiv. to ē- e- + vocāre to call (akin to vōx voice )

Related forms:
e⋅vok⋅er, noun
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e·voke   (ĭ-vōk')   
tr.v.   e·voked, e·vok·ing, e·vokes
  1. To summon or call forth: actions that evoked our mistrust.
  2. To call to mind by naming, citing, or suggesting: songs that evoke old memories.
  3. To create anew, especially by means of the imagination: a novel that evokes the Depression in accurate detail.

[Latin ēvocāre : ē-, ex-, ex- + vocāre, to call; see wekw- in Indo-European roots.]
ev'o·ca·ble (ěv'ə-kə-bəl, ĭ-vō'kə-) adj.
Synonyms: These verbs mean to draw forth or bring out something latent, hidden, or unexpressed: evoke laughter; educed significance from the event; trying to elicit the truth.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Evoke

E*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evoked; p. pr. & vb. n. Evoking.] [L. evocare; e out + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice: cf. F ['e]voquer. See Voice, and cf. Evocate.]

1. To call out; to summon forth.

To evoke the queen of the fairies. --T. Warton.

A requlating discipline of exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. --De Quincey.

2. To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. [R.] "The cause was evoked to Rome." --Hume.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : evoke
Spanish: provocar,
German: hervorrufen,
Japanese: 引き起こす
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