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Definition: Call Forth |
Call ForthVerb1. Call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple". 2. Evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic: "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Call ForthSynonyms: arouse (v), bring up (v), call down (v), conjure (v), conjure up (v), evoke (v), invoke (v), kick up (v), provoke (v), put forward (v), raise (v), stir (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
Use | Render useful; mold; turn to account, turn to use; convert to use, utilize; work up; call into play, bring into play; put into requisition; call forth, draw forth; press into service, enlist into the service; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply, adhibit, dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat's-paw of. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Call Forth |
| English words defined with "call forth": arouse ♦ breed, bring up ♦ call down, conjure, conjure up ♦ elicit, engender, enkindle, evoke ♦ fire ♦ invoke ♦ kick up, kindle ♦ provoke, put forward ♦ raise ♦ spawn, stir ♦ To call forth. (references) |
| Play | Caption |
| Activate; alert; animate; arouse; awaken; call forth; enliven; excite; incite; kindle; provoke; revive; stimulate; stir up; vivify; awake. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | These passages in the lives of happy couples are a profound appeal to life and nature, and call forth endearment and light from everything. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He tried to call forth some of its vivid moments but could not. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expression using "call forth": To call forth. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "call forth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shkaktoj (afflict, arouse, beget, breed, bring about, cause, contrive, create, do, draw, effectuate, engender, evoke, give, incur, induce, inflict, inspire, move, procure, produce, put, raise, sow, start, stir, strike, unchain, work, wreak), përdor (apply, employ, exercise, exploit, manipulate, participate, reclaim, take, use, utilize, wield). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | събирам (accumulate, add, add together, add up, aggregate, amass, assemble, bring together, call together, club, collect, compile, congregate, cumulate, drum up, embody, enlist, foot, furl, garner, gather, get together, harvest, lump, lump together, mass, muster, muster up, pin down, pull together, punch, raise, rake, rake together, rake up, rally, reassemble, reunite, round up, run up, scare up, sum, sum up, swoop, total, totalize, whip in), напрягам (bend, exert, hump, intensify, overstrain, rack, strain, string up, tense), пущам в действие, пораждам (beget, breed, cause, engender, evoke, gender, generate, give birth, give rise to, give to rise, originate, produce, prompt, provoke, raise, sow, start up, stir). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vyvolat (bring, bring about, call, call up, cause, develop, draw, evoke, induce, initiate, invite, raise, start, stir). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | synnyttää (arouse, be delivered of, be in labour, bear, bring about, cause, create, give birth, give birth to, give rise to, labour, produce), nostattaa (cause, produce, raise, rouse), manata esiin (conjure up), herättää (arouse, awaken, wake, wake up, waken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wecken (arouse, awake, awaked, awaken, awoken, bring back, create, excite, kindle, prompt, reveille, revive, rouse, spark, to awake, wake, wake up, waken, waking-up time), wachrufen (call to mind, evocation, evoke, rouse, stir up), hervorrufen (arouse, burgeon, call for, call to come out, cause, cause to take place, create, evocation, evoke, give rise to, induce, stimulate, to cause, to evoke, to excite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προκαλώ (beget, bring about, bring on, call out, cause, challenge, dare, defy, engender, evoke, fetch, give rise to, induce, provoke), επιστρατεύω (conscript, marshal, mobilize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kicsal (squeeze out, to call forth, to elicit, to juggle, to screw out, trick up), eredményez (come, eventuate, redound, result, to call forth, to effect, to minister to), előhív (to call forth), előcsal (to call forth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | evocare (conjure, evoke, invoke, to conjure up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 心が通う (to call forth a response in another's heart, to understand each other well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ""ろがかよう (to call forth a response in another's heart, to understand each other well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | eamagh magh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | allcay orthfay provoca (abet, agitate, bring, bring on, bring to pass, cause, challenge, create, dare, defy, elicit, encourage, excite, fling down the gauntlet, give, give rise to, impel, incite, induce, instigate, invite, provoke, raise, rouse, spur on, start, stimulate, stir, stir up, throw down the gauntlet, urge, work up), determina (abstract, appoint, ascertain, bring, cause, conditional, convince, define, determine, dictate, draw, entail, establish, find, fix, gather, govern, induce, infer, lead, make, mark out, modify, persuade, procure, produce, prompt, provoke, reason, urge), atrage dupã sine (carry, invite, involve). (various references) uppbjuda (invite, muster, summon), frammana (conjure up, evoke), framkalla (arouse, bring about, call up, cause, develop, elicit, engender, evoke, excite, fetch, induce, invite, prompt, provoke, recall, set up). (various references) yol açmak (beat a path, beget, blaze the trail, bring about, cause, cut, entail, evoke, give rise to, give smb. a lead, involve, lie behind, raise, set forward), sarfetmek (consume, expend, spend), neden olmak (beget, bring, bring about, bring along, cause, conduce, cost, create, determine, do, draw on, encompass, engender, excite, give rise to, incline, invite, originate, procure, produce, provoke, raise, touch off, trigger), kullanmak (apply, dispose, dispose of, draw on, drive, employ, engage, exert, exploit, handle, harness, head, lay on, make use of, operate, pilot, ply, put account, ride, roll, run, take advantage of, turn to account, use, utilize, wield). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | calamus, calites, excito, provocabant, provocabat, provocabit, provocabo, provocandam, provocans, provocant, provocantes, provocare, provocarent, provocares, provocaretis, provocas, provocassent, provocasti, provocastis, provocat, provocatrix, provocatum, provocaverat, provocaveris, provocaveritis, provocaverunt, provocavi, provocavimus, provocavit, provocem, provocet, provocetis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-h-l-l-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: challot, chloral, trochal. | |
-3 letters: chalot, cholla, choral, collar, factor, floral, hallot, harlot, thrall. | |
-4 letters: actor, allot, aloft, altho, atoll, carol, chart, claro, cloth, coral, craft, croft, float, flora, flota, focal, forth, froth, hallo, holla, horal, larch, latch, loach, loath, local, loral, lotah, octal, orach, ratch, roach, rotch, taroc, tolar, torah, torch, troll. | |
-5 letters: alto. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Sounds | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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