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- Dictionaryevoke/ɪˈvəʊk/
verb
- 1. bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind: "the sight evoked pleasant memories of his childhood"
- 2. invoke (a spirit or deity): "Akasha is evoked in India when a house is being built to ensure its completion"
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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. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Remembering, reminding and reminders. aide-mémoire. annal. awaken someone to something. be engraved on someone's memory/mind idiom.
The meaning of EVOKE is to call forth or up. How to use evoke in a sentence. evoke or invoke? Synonym Discussion of Evoke.
EVOKE meaning: 1. to make someone remember something or feel an emotion: 2. to make someone remember something or…. Learn more.
The verb evoke most commonly means to bring a feeling, memory, or picture into the mind. When you visit your old elementary school, the smells, sounds, and colors there can evoke memories from the past.
Evoke definition: to call up or produce (memories, feelings, etc.). See examples of EVOKE used in a sentence.
verb. To evoke a particular memory, idea, emotion, or response means to cause it to occur. [formal] ...the scene evoking memories of those old movies. [VERB noun] A sense of period was evoked by complementing pictures with appropriate furniture. [VERB noun] More Synonyms of evoke. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
evoke something to bring a feeling, a memory or an image into your mind. The music evoked memories of her youth. His case is unlikely to evoke public sympathy.
1. To give rise to; draw forth; produce: words that evoked a smile; actions that evoked mistrust. 2. To call to mind, as by suggestion, association, or reference: songs that evoke old memories; a speech that evoked the words of Jefferson. 3. To create anew, especially by means of the imagination: a novel that accurately evokes the Depression. 4.
EVOKE definition: to make someone remember something or feel an emotion: . Learn more.
evoke. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English e‧voke /ɪˈvəʊk $ ɪˈvoʊk/ verb [ transitive] to produce a strong feeling or memory in someone The photographs evoked strong memories of our holidays in France. His appearance is bound to evoke sympathy.
