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evoke

verb
/ɪˈvəʊk/UK/ɪˈvoʊk/US

Etymology

From French évoquer, from Latin ēvocō (“to call out, summon”), from ex (“out”) and vocō (“call”). Akin to voice.

  1. derived from ēvocō — “to call out, summon”
  2. derived from évoquer

Definitions

  1. To call out

    To call out; to draw out or bring forth.

  2. To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or…

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

    • Being here evokes long forgotten memories.
    • Seeing this happen equally evokes fear and anger in me.
    • The book evokes a detailed and lively picture of what life was like in the 19th century.

  3. To elicit a response.

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Derived

evocable, evokable, evoker, reevoke, re-evoke, reëvoke, unevoked

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at evoke. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01evoke02picture03canvas04strands05strand06lake07running08moving09evoking

A definitional loop anchored at evoke. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at evoke

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA