Evoke

Definitions: Evoke

Evoke

Verb

1. Call forth; of emotions, feelings, and responses; "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy".

2. Call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple".

3. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant".

4. Call to mind or evoke.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "evoke" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Evoke \E*voke"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Evoked; present participle verb or noun Evoking.]. (Websters 1913)

Health

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Evoke

Cause

Procure, induce, draw down, open the door to, superinduce, evoke, entail, operate; elicit, provoke.

Excitation

Verb: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.

Request

Beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore; conjure, adjure; obtest; cry to, kneel to, appeal to; invoke, evoke; impetrate, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for; cry aloud, cry for help; fall on one's knees; throw oneself at the feet of; come down on one's marrowbones.

Crosswords: Evoke

Books

• A Hiker's Guide to California Native Places: Interpretive Trails, Reconstructed Villages, Rock-Art Sites and the Indigenous Cultures They Evoke (reference)

• Evoke (reference)

• Recipes from a Country Kitchen: Inspiring Ideas to Evoke a Taste of Country All Year Round (reference)

• Teaching Creative Behavior: How to Evoke Creativity in Children of All Ages (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Evoke (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

In some extremely allergic patients who have severe anaphylactic reactions, skin testing cannot be used because it could evoke a dangerous reaction. (references)

Even low doses of UVB can reduce their antigen-presenting capability, block the normal effector pathway, and evoke an inappropriate response by activating T suppressor networks. (references)

To satisfy the diagnostic criteria for panic disorder, at least some of the panic attacks must occur unexpectedly or spontaneously, that is, in the absence of specific environmental or situational triggers such as elevators, public speaking, snakes, closed spaces, or other situations that evoke fearful avoidance in some people. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ending with "evoke": re-evoke.

Albanian

shkaktoj (afflict, arouse, beget, breed, bring about, call forth, cause, contrive, create, do, draw, effectuate, engender, give, incur, induce, inflict, inspire, move, procure, produce, put, raise, sow, start, stir, strike, unchain, work, wreak), ndjell (augur, cluck, conjure, entice, forebode). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نفخ الحياة فيه, ‏صور بطريقة نابضة بالحياة, ‏إستحضر, ‏إستدعى (call, call up, demand, recall, send for, summon), ‏أثار (aggravate, arouse, awaken, bestir, burn, chafe, elicit, engage, exacerbate, exalt, excite, fan, ferment, flurry, foment, fray, frazzle, fret, fuss, gall, get, gravel, gripe, heat, impassion, inflame, infuriate, inspire, instigate, irritate, itch, jog, jostle, kindle, madden, move, outrage, pique, remnant, rile, rouse, sour, stimulate, switch on, tease, thrill, touch off, transport, trigger, trouble, turn on, unsettle, urge, vex, whet, whip, work). (various references)

Bulgarian 

будя (arouse, awake, call, provoke, raise, wake), пораждам (beget, breed, call forth, cause, engender, gender, generate, give birth, give rise to, give to rise, originate, produce, prompt, provoke, raise, sow, start up, stir), извиквам (call in, call out, cry out, exclaim, give a cry, hail, shout, shout for, yell). (various references)

Chinese 

召�"� (Beckon, Beckoned, Beckoning, Conjure, Conjured, Conjuring, Evoked, Evoking, summon, Summoned, summoning, summons, Summonses). (various references)

Czech

vyvolat (bring, bring about, call, call forth, call up, cause, develop, draw, induce, initiate, invite, raise, start, stir), budit vzpomínky. (various references)

Dutch

naar buiten roepen. (various references)

Esperanto

elvoki. (various references)

Farsi 

فراخواندن (Muster, Recall, Summon), احضارکردن (Call, Muster, Remand, Repeal), بیرون کشیدن (Draw, Extract, Solicit), برگرداندن (Convert, Rebut, Reflect, Refract, Regurgitate, Repay, Retort, Return, Reverse, Turquoise, Upset, Vomit). (various references)

French

susciter, rappeler, évoquer. (various references)

German

hervorrufen (arouse, burgeon, call for, call forth, call to come out, cause, cause to take place, create, evocation, give rise to, induce, stimulate, to cause, to evoke, to excite). (various references)

Greek 

προκαλώ (beget, bring about, bring on, call forth, call out, cause, challenge, dare, defy, engender, fetch, give rise to, induce, provoke), επικαλούμαι (call upon, conjure up, invoke). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"עלות זכרו� ות (reminisce). (various references)

Hungarian

elõidéz (bring about, bring forth, cause, give rise to, induce, provoke), megidéz (cite, summon, summons, to cite, to conjure up, to convene, to evoke, to summon, to summons), felidéz (call up, to call back, to conjure up, to evoke, to exorcise, to exorcize, to invoke, to recall, to reproduce, to wake). (various references)

Italian

evocare (call forth, conjure, invoke, to conjure up), suscitare (arouse, cause, elicit, excite, inspire, kindle, provoke, rouse). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

誘起 (evocation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ゆうき (boldness, bravery, courage, definite period or term, departed soul, evocation, ghost, nerve, organic, revenant, spirit, valour). (various references)

Manx

tayrn magh (drag out, draw out, elicit, extract, extraction, pluck out, pull out, rip out, withdraw, withdraw as money, withdrawal), dooishtey (evocation, reveille, revive, rouse). (various references)

Norwegian

fremkalle (develop, reveal). (various references)

Papiamen

sklama. (various references)

Pig Latin

evokeay

Portuguese

evocar (invoke, remember). (various references)

Romanian

evoca (awake, call up, conjure up, provoke, recall), trezi (arouse, awake, awaken, call, disabuse, hold up, hound on, induce, inspire with, knock up, prompt, raise, rip up, rouse, sharpen, wake, wake up), deştepta (arouse, awake, awaken, call, call up, enkindle, enliven, knock up, raise, reveille, rouse, wake), înainta un proces. (various references)

Russian 

вызывать (bring, bring about, bring forth, call, call in, challenge, cite, conjure, engender, entail, evoked, exert, give rise to, induce, involve, produce, provoke, ring for, summon, whistle up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

evocirati (hark back), probuditi (arouse, awaken, rouse, wake, wake up, waken), prizivati (conjure, imprecate), izazivati (dare, hector, outbrave, outdare, provoke). (various references)

Spanish

evocar (call up, conjure up, look back on, raise, to conjure up), faltar (be lacking, be missing, break, default, fail, fall short, go back on, lack, lacking, leak, let down). (various references)

Swedish

väcka (arouse, awake, awaken, bring up, call, give, introduce, kindle, rouse, wake, wake up, waken), framkalla (arouse, bring about, call forth, call up, cause, develop, elicit, engender, excite, fetch, induce, invite, prompt, provoke, recall, set up). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้ระลึกความหลัง, ทำให้ปรากฏขึ้น. (various references)

Turkish

yol açmak (beat a path, beget, blaze the trail, bring about, call forth, cause, cut, entail, give rise to, give smb. a lead, involve, lie behind, raise, set forward), uyandırmak (arouse, awake, awaken, call, disabuse, disabuse of, excite, inspire, kindle, knock up, provoke, quicken, recall, revive, rouse, rouse up, spark, stir, stir up, undeceive, wake, wake up, waken, whet), ruh çağırmak (conjure, conjure up, raise), hatırlatmak (be evocative of, be redolent of, bring back, bring to mind, call to mind, conjure up, echo, invoke, put smb. in mind of, recall, remind, remind of), anımsatmak (be evocative of, bring to mind, remind of), çağrışım yapmak. (various references)

Ukranian 

викликати (arouse, bring forth, bring on, call, call in, cause, challenge, champion, cite, create, defy, necessitate, procure, provoke, send for, send up, set smb. agog, stir up, strike, summon, touch off, wake, warn, whistle up), пробуджувати (awake, awaken). (various references)

excita, excito. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "evoke": evoked, evoker, evokers, evokes. (additional references)

Words ending with "evoke": reevoke, revoke. (additional references)

Words containing "evoke": reevoked, reevokes, revoked, revoker, revokers, revokes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Evoke" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Avokea, eeoc, envoke, eok, eov, evace, evkaf, evo, evoc, Evoe, evok, evole, ev'one, evoqe, evote, evuke, ivoke, Levuka, Nevski, veke, vok, voke. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: eke, eve, oke, vee, voe.

-3 letters: oe.

+1 letter: evoked, evoker, evokes, revoke.

+2 letters: dovekey, dovekie, evokers, reevoke, revoked, revoker, revokes.

+3 letters: dovekeys, dovekies, dovelike, equivoke, makeover, ovenlike, overbake, overdeck, overkeen, overmeek, overtake, overweak, reevoked, reevokes, reinvoke, revokers, takeover.

+4 letters: equivokes, makeovers, overbaked, overbakes, overdecks, oversmoke, overtaken, overtakes, reevoking, reinvoked, reinvokes, revokable, takeovers.

+5 letters: herrenvolk, moviemaker, overbooked, overcooked, overdecked, overkilled, overlooked, overmilked, oversmoked, oversmokes, oversoaked, overstrike, overtalked, overtasked, overworked, perovskite, spokeshave, strikeover.

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