Meanings
present singular third person evokes · participle present evoking · participle past evoked · past evoked
- transitiveTo call out; to draw out or bring forth.
- transitiveTo cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.
Being here evokes long forgotten memories.
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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.
The face of the dying man in the lingchi video monotonously evokes Maria Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer ’s 1928 “Passion of Joan of Arc.”
2007 July 25, Roberta Smith, “Figures Moving as if in a Trance Across an Isolated, Lawless Island”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022In the 175 years that have passed, composers have seized on accelerating and decelerating rhythms combined with the ostinati of pistons and wheels crossing track joints to evoke the feeling of travelling by rail.
2025 December 24, Chris Edwards, “Rhythm of the railway”, in RAIL, number 1051, page 50Synonyms: invoke, excite, inspire, put someone in mind of, call up
- transitiveTo elicit a response.
The outstanding train on the L.M.S. route was the 6.20 p.m. from Birmingham, which reached Euston in two hours after intermediate stops at Coventry, Rugby and Watford Junction, and evoked some sparkling performances from "Patriot" and "Jubilee" 4-6-0s.
1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 98Synonyms: instigate, provoke, abet, actuate, goose, fuel, light a fire under, send
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.
verbTo elicit a response.
More synonyms by meaning
verbcall forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
verbevoke or provoke to appear or occur
verbdeduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
verbsummon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
verbcall to mind
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Arabic اِسْتَحْضَارَ, اِسْتَدَعَى
- اِسْتَحْضَارَ (istaḥḍāra)to cause the manifestation of
- اِسْتَدَعَى (istadaʕā)to cause the manifestation of
Bulgarian предизви́квам, събуждам
- предизви́квам (predizvíkvam)to cause the manifestation of
- събуждам (săbuždam)to cause the manifestation of
Catalan evocar
- evocarto cause the manifestation of
Chinese Mandarin 喚起 /唤起
- 喚起 /唤起 (huànqǐ)to cause the manifestation of
Czech vyvolat, vyvolávat
- vyvolatto cause the manifestation of
- vyvolávatto cause the manifestation of
- evokovatto cause the manifestation of
Danish fremmane, fremkalde
- fremmaneto cause the manifestation of
- fremkaldeto cause the manifestation of
- vækketo cause the manifestation of
Dutch oproepen
- oproepento cause the manifestation of
Esperanto elvoki
- elvokito cause the manifestation of
Finnish herättää, synnyttää
- herättääto cause the manifestation of
- synnyttääto cause the manifestation of
French évoquer, remémorer
- évoquerto cause the manifestation of
- remémorerto cause the manifestation of
German hervorrufen, heraufbeschwören
- hervorrufento cause the manifestation of
- heraufbeschwörento cause the manifestation of
Hebrew עורר
- עוררto cause the manifestation of
Hindi आह्वान
- आह्वान (āhvān)to cause the manifestation of
Hungarian felidéz
- felidézto cause the manifestation of
Italian rammemorare
- rammemorareto cause the manifestation of
Japanese 喚起する
- 喚起する (kanki-suru)to cause the manifestation of
Latin ēvōcō
- ēvōcōto cause the manifestation of
Māori pūkare
- pūkareto cause the manifestation of
Norwegian framkalle
- framkalleto cause the manifestation of
Polish wywoływać, wywołać
- wywoływaćto cause the manifestation of
- wywołaćto cause the manifestation of
- przywoływaćto cause the manifestation of
- przywołaćto cause the manifestation of
Portuguese evocar
- evocarto cause the manifestation of
Russian вызыва́ть, вы́звать
- вызыва́ть (vyzyvátʹ)to cause the manifestation of
- вы́звать (výzvatʹ)to cause the manifestation of
Spanish evocar
- evocarto cause the manifestation of
Swedish frammana
- frammanato cause the manifestation of
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with evoke
Cite this entry
evoke. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/evoke
“evoke.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/evoke. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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