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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 meaning: to make someone remember something or feel an emotion: . Learn more.
verb. evoked, evokes, evoking. To draw forth or elicit (a particular mental image, reaction, etc.) Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To call to mind, as by suggestion, association, or reference. Songs that evoke old memories; a speech that evoked the words of Jefferson. American Heritage.
