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e⋅voke
[i-vohk]
–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. |
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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.
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Language Translation for : evoke
Spanish:
provocar,
German:
hervorrufen,
Japanese:
引き起こす
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