Definition of evoke

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e·voke    (-vk) KEY 

TRANSITIVE VERB:
e·voked, e·vok·ing, e·vokes

1. To summon or call forth: actions that evoked our mistrust.
2. To call to mind by naming, citing, or suggesting: songs that evoke old memories.
3. To create anew, especially by means of the imagination: a novel that evokes the Depression in accurate detail.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Latin vocre : -, ex-, ex- + vocre, to call; see wek^w- in Indo-European roots

OTHER FORMS:
evo·ca·ble  (v-k-bl, -vk-) KEY (Adjective)

SYNONYMS:
evoke, educe, elicit

These verbs mean to draw forth or bring out something latent, hidden, or unexpressed: evoke laughter; educed significance from the event; trying to elicit the truth.