tr.v., evoked, evoking, evokes.
- To summon or call forth: actions that evoked our mistrust.
- To call to mind by naming, citing, or suggesting: songs that evoke old memories.
- To create anew, especially by means of the imagination: a novel that evokes the Depression in accurate detail.
[Latin ēvocāre : ē-, ex-, ex- + vocāre, to call.]
evocable ev'ocable (ĕv'ə-kə-bəl, ĭ-vō'kə-) adj.SYNONYMSevoke, educe, elicit. These verbs mean to draw forth or bring out something latent, hidden, or unexpressed: evoke laughter; educed significance from the event; trying to elicit the truth.
