English > elicit: 3 senses > verb 1, emotion| Meaning | Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses). |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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| Synonyms | arouse, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke |
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| Narrower | anger | make angry |
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| draw | elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc. |
| excite | Arouse or elicit a feeling |
| hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite | hurt the feelings of |
| infatuate | Arouse unreasoning love / love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way |
| inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat, fire up | Arouse or excite feelings and passions |
| interest | excite the curiosity of |
| invite, ask for | increase the likelihood of |
| overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake | Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli |
| prick | To cause a sharp emotional pain |
| rekindle | Arouse again |
| shame | Cause to be ashamed |
| stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir | Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of |
| strike a chord, touch a chord | Evoke a reaction, response, or emotion |
| upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit | Cause to lose one's composure |
| Broader | make, create | make or cause to be or to become |
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| Spanish | causar, despertar, estimular, evocar, excitar, incitar, provocar, suscitar |
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| Catalan | causar, despertar, estimular, evocar, excitar, incitar, moure, suscitar |
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| Nouns | elicitation | stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors |
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