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- Dictionaryevoke/ɪˈvəʊk/
verb
- 1. bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind: "the sight evoked pleasant memories of his childhood"
- 2. invoke (a spirit or deity): "Akasha is evoked in India when a house is being built to ensure its completion"
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The meaning of EVOKE is to call forth or up. How to use evoke in a sentence. evoke or invoke? Synonym Discussion of Evoke.
to make someone remember something or feel an emotion: That smell always evokes memories of my old school. a detergent designed to evoke the fresh smell of summer meadows. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Remembering, reminding and reminders. aide-mémoire. annal. awaken someone to something. be engraved on someone's memory/mind idiom.
The verb evoke most commonly means to bring a feeling, memory, or picture into the mind. When you visit your old elementary school, the smells, sounds, and colors there can evoke memories from the past.
Definition of 'evoke' evoke. (ɪvoʊk ) Word forms: evokes , evoking , evoked. verb. To evoke a particular memory, idea, emotion, or response means to cause it to occur. [formal] ...the scene evoking memories of those old movies. [VERB noun] A sense of period was evoked by complementing pictures with appropriate furniture. [VERB noun]
Evoke definition: to call up or produce (memories, feelings, etc.). See examples of EVOKE used in a sentence.
to make someone remember something or feel an emotion: That smell always evokes memories of my old school. a detergent designed to evoke the fresh smell of summer meadows. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Remembering, reminding and reminders. aide-mémoire. annal. awaken someone to something phrasal verb.
