Definition of evokes Evokes

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What does evokes mean?

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evokes, verb, present, 3rd person singular of evoke (infinitive).

WordNet

Verb
evoke - call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
		arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, fire, raise, provoke
		create, make create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses"
		touch a chord, strike a chord create an emotional response; "The music struck a chord with the listeners"
		ask for, invite ask someone in a friendly way to do something
		draw cause to localize at one point; "Draw blood and pus"
		rekindle arouse again; "rekindle hopes"; "rekindle her love"
		infatuate arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way; "His new car has infatuated him"; "love has infatuated her"
		prick to cause a sharp emotional pain; "The thought of her unhappiness pricked his conscience"
		fire up, ignite, heat, stir up, inflame, wake cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat; "Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter"; "Light a cigarette"
		shake up, stimulate, excite, stir, shake cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate"
		excite produce a magnetic field in; "excite the neurons"
		anger make angry; "The news angered him"
		discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune, upset cause to be out of tune; "Don't untune that string!"
		shame surpass or beat by a wide margin
		spite, wound, injure, bruise, offend, hurt cause injuries or bodily harm to
		sweep over, whelm, overpower, overtake, overcome, overwhelm overcome by superior force
		interest excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of
evoke - summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
		raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
		call forth, kick up, provoke, evoke cause to rise by kicking; "kick up dust"
		create, make create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses"
		bedamn, beshrew, damn, maledict, anathemise, anathemize, imprecate, curse utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street"
		bless give a benediction to; "The dying man blessed his son"
evoke - call to mind; "this remark evoked sadness"
		suggest, paint a picture
		evince, express, show articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise; "She expressed her anger"; "He uttered a curse"
		reek, smack, smell be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face
		inculpate, incriminate, imply suggest that someone is guilty
evoke - evoke or provoke to appear or occur; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"
		provoke, call forth, kick up
		cause, do, make give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident"
		pick remove in small bits; "pick meat from a bone"
evoke - deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
		educe, elicit, extract, draw out
		construe, interpret, see make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"

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Wiktionary

evoke (Verb)
To cause the manifestation of something emotion, picture, etc. in someone's mind or imagination.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

evoke (v. t.)
To call out; to summon forth.
evoke (v. t.)
To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

evoke
To call up or produce memories, feelings, etc.
evoke
To summon into action or bring into existence.
evoke
To call to mind.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

evoke
e-vōk′, v.t. to call out: to draw out or bring forth.—v.t. Ev′ocate, to call up (spirits) from the dead.—n. Evocā′tion. [L. evocāre—e, out, and vocāre, to call.]