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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.
The meaning of EVOKE is to call forth or up. How to use evoke in a sentence. evoke or invoke? Synonym Discussion of Evoke.
To evoke a particular memory, idea, emotion, or response means to cause it to occur.
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.
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.
1. to call up or produce (memories, feelings, etc.). 2. to elicit or draw forth: His comment evoked many protests. 3. to suggest through artistry and imagination: a poem that evokes sounds and images of urban life. 4. to call up; cause to appear; summon: to evoke a spirit from the dead.
To evoke a particular memory, idea, emotion, or response means to cause it to occur. [formal] [...] More. Conjugations of 'evoke' present simple: I evoke, you evoke [...] past simple: I evoked, you evoked [...] past participle: evoked. More. Synonyms of 'evoke' • arouse, cause, excite [...] • provoke, produce, elicit [...]
UK /ɪˈvəʊk/ verb (with object) 1. bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind the sight evoked pleasant memories of his childhood elicit (a response) the Green Paper evoked critical reactions from various bodies 2. invoke (a spirit or deity) Akasha is evoked in India when a house is being built to ensure its completion.
EVOKE meaning: to make someone remember something or feel an emotion: . Learn more.
