EVOKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evoke mean? 

• EVOKE (verb)
  The verb EVOKE has 5 senses:

1. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

2. evoke or provoke to appear or occur

3. deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

4. summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

5. call to mind

  Familiarity information: EVOKE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVOKE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they evoke    ... he / she / it evokes   
Past simple: evoked   
Past participle: evoked   
-ing form: evoking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise

Context example:

evoke sympathy

Hypernyms (to "evoke" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "evoke"):

interest (excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of)

overcome; overpower; overtake; overwhelm; sweep over; whelm (overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli)

bruise; hurt; injure; offend; spite; wound (hurt the feelings of)

shame (cause to be ashamed)

discomfit; discompose; disconcert; untune; upset (cause to lose one's composure)

anger (make angry)

excite (arouse or elicit a feeling)

excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of)

fire up; heat; ignite; inflame; stir up; wake (arouse or excite feelings and passions)

prick (to cause a sharp emotional pain)

infatuate (arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way)

rekindle (arouse again)

draw (elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.)

ask for; invite (increase the likelihood of)

strike a chord; touch a chord (evoke a reaction, response, or emotion)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

evocation (stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors)

evocative (serving to bring to mind)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Evoke or provoke to appear or occur

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

call forth; evoke; kick up; provoke

Context example:

Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple

Hypernyms (to "evoke" is one way to...):

cause; do; make (give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally)

Verb group:

arouse; bring up; call down; call forth; conjure; conjure up; evoke; invoke; put forward; raise; stir (summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "evoke"):

pick (provoke)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

evocation (stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

draw out; educe; elicit; evoke; extract

Context example:

We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant

Hypernyms (to "evoke" is one way to...):

construe; interpret; see (make sense of; assign a meaning to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

arouse; bring up; call down; call forth; conjure; conjure up; evoke; invoke; put forward; raise; stir

Context example:

call down the spirits from the mountain

Hypernyms (to "evoke" is one way to...):

call up; summon (cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively)

Verb group:

call forth; evoke; kick up; provoke (evoke or provoke to appear or occur)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "evoke"):

anathemise; anathemize; bedamn; beshrew; curse; damn; imprecate; maledict (wish harm upon; invoke evil upon)

bless (give a benediction to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

evocation (calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Call to mind

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

evoke; paint a picture; suggest

Context example:

this remark evoked sadness

Hypernyms (to "evoke" is one way to...):

evince; express; show (give expression to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "evoke"):

imply; incriminate; inculpate (suggest that someone is guilty)

reek; smack; smell (have an element suggestive (of something))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

evocation (imaginative re-creation)

evocative (serving to bring to mind)

 Context examples 

A granulomatous inflammatory reaction evoked by the presence of an exogenous material in the tissues, a characteristic feature of which is the formation of foreign body giant cells.

(Foreign Body Reaction, NCI Thesaurus)

The term is widely used to evoke sense of collectivity.

(Community, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called ABR test, BAER test, and brain stem auditory evoked response test.

(Auditory brain stem response test, NCI Dictionary)

Vaccination with this peptide may evoke a cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response against tumor cells expression the gp100 antigen.

(gp100 Protein (184V), NCI Thesaurus)

Vaccination with this peptide may evoke a cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response against tumor cells expression of the gp100 antigen.

(gp209-2M Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)

Some PPAR-gamma ligands induce the specific recruitment of coactivators, and might evoke different functional responses based on the interactions they favor.

(Obesity and Thermogenesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This allele, which encodes lysophosphatidic acid receptor 3 protein, plays a role as a cellular receptor for lysophosphatidic acid and mediates lysophosphatidic acid-evoked calcium mobilization.

(LPAR3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called auditory brain stem response test, BAER test, and brain stem auditory evoked response test.

(ABR test, NCI Dictionary)

Also called ABR test, auditory brain stem response test, and brain stem auditory evoked response test.

(BAER test, NCI Dictionary)

Likewise, a small percentage of targets (about 3%) evoked a strong response in any one neuron.

(Storing memories of recent events, NIH)