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Definition of evoke : 1. To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another.
2. To call out; to summon forth.

Synonyms:

force out, can, dress down, extract, nominate, rag, plague, call up, berate, excite, get up, call forth, lecture, set up, press out, conspire, protract, bawl out, touch, assert, put up, beseech, posit, molest, educe, awake, jaw, distil, upgrade, go off, give the axe, give notice, cabal, lambast, kindle, energise, promote, extend, advance, heighten, excerpt, leaven, grow, levy, come alive, recruit, send away, suck out, chivy, chew out, enhance, complot, take out, elevate, summon, agitate, harass, distill, indicate, chevy, displace, kick up, hassle, wind up, kick upstairs, bring up, cite, reproof, rear, propose, reprimand, mention, chivvy, farm, sack, call on the carpet, budge, press, nurture, derive, shake, wake up, name, aspirate, discharge, boot, state, resurrect, pull up, appeal, call down, adjure, give the sack, rouse, wake, advise, harry, have words, inflame, trounce, pull out, chevvy, energize, put forward, paint a picture, stimulate, terminate, burn down, scold, lift, pull, conjure, hint, suggest, conflagrate, prolong, shift, take to task, brace, conjure up, fuel, reboot, awaken, burn, chew up, machinate, arouse, sex, remonstrate, prove, raise, erect, enkindle, submit, fire, refer, entreat, turn on, bid, upraise, shake up, beset, perk up, open fire, invoke, stir, show, parent, chide, lambaste, express, advert, waken, dismiss, draw out, intimate, rebuke

enforce, generate, induce, cause, execute, provoke, make, drive, bring about, give rise to, produce, effect, engender, act, elicit, motivate, inspire, originate, force, engineer

Usage examples:

• Only he can fail to understand your style who does not understand the music either; to see how you express precisely and keenly in words the feelings which music alone can evoke in us fills every one with delight who himself experiences those feelings without finding words for them. - "Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1", Francis Hueffer (translator).
• Iamblichus was not given power to evoke the genii, and cause them to emerge from the fountain of Gadara, without first spending days and nights in study, and mortifying the body with privations and abstinences. - "Pepita Ximenez", Juan Valera.
• I turned away and closed my eyes, and tried to evoke a vision of white surf falling upon the beach, of tall trees swaying in the breeze, of a brook dropping gently between green banks. - "The Gloved Hand", Burton E. Stevenson.