English > evoke: 5 senses > verb 1, emotion| Meaning | Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses). |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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| Example | "evoke sympathy" |
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| Synonyms | arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, 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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| Adjectives | evocative | serving to bring to mind |
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| Nouns | evocation | stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors |
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English > evoke: 5 senses > verb 2, creation| Meaning | Evoke or provoke to appear or occur. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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| Synonyms | provoke, call forth, kick up |
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| Narrower | pick | Provoke |
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| Broader | cause, do, make | give rise to |
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| Similar to | raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth | Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic |
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| Spanish | armar jaleo, causar, evocar, inspirar, ocasionar, provocar |
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| Catalan | causar, provocar |
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| Nouns | evocation | stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors |
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English > evoke: 5 senses > verb 4, creation| Meaning | Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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| Synonyms | raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth |
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| Narrower | bless | Give a benediction to |
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| curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict | wish harm upon |
| Broader | call up, summon | Cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively |
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| Similar to | provoke, evoke, call forth, kick up | Evoke or provoke to appear or occur |
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| Spanish | agitar, conjurar, despertar, evocar, exponer, invitar, invocar, llamar, recaudar, remover, revolver, traer |
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| Catalan | invocar |
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| Nouns | evocation | calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations |
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