verb
Meaning 1
To call out; to draw out or bring forth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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verb
To call out; to draw out or bring forth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: invoke, excite, inspire, put someone in mind of, call up
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To elicit a response.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: instigate, provoke, abet, actuate, goose, fuel, light a fire under, send, sting, bring about, cheer, draw, drive, encourage, egg on, engender, evoke, excite, foment, goad, grill, ignite, impel, incite, induce, inflame, invoke, lash, motive, motivate, move, obligate, oblige, push, promote, prompt, rouse, set off, spark off, spur, spur on, stimulate, stir, stir up, stoke, tempt, urge, whet, whip up
Antonyms: none provided
verb
call to mind
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: suggest, paint a picture
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: express, show, evince
Narrower terms: smack, reek, smell, incriminate, imply, inculpate
verb
summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: make, create
Narrower terms: curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict, bless
verb
deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: educe, elicit, extract, draw out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: interpret, construe, see
verb
evoke or provoke to appear or occur
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: provoke, call forth, kick up
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cause, do, make
Narrower terms: pick
verb
call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, fire, raise, provoke
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: make, create
Narrower terms: strike a chord, touch a chord, invite, ask for, draw, rekindle, infatuate, prick, inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat, fire up, stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir, anger, upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit, shame, hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite, overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake, interest
History
From French évoquer, from Latin ēvocō (“to call out, summon”), from ex (“out”) and vocō (“call”). Akin to voice.
Across languages
44 source translations are retained for this English entry.