Definitions for evokes

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evokes e·voke

Spelling: [ih-vohk]

IPA: /ɪˈvoʊk/

Evokes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in evokes (eekosv).

Definitions for evokes

verb (used with object)

1. to call up or produce (memories, feelings, etc.):
2. to elicit or draw forth:
3. to call up; cause to appear; summon:
4. to produce or suggest through artistry and imagination a vivid impression of reality:

Origin of evokes

1615-25; Latin ēvocāre, equivalent to ē- e-¹ + vocāre to call (akin to vōx voice)

Examples for evokes

I am not only to suppress the evil, but to evoke the good elements in my nature.

Thankfully, the piece did not try to evoke the Internet through tired dance gestures or pseudo-digital music.

You must evoke for that task those who have already gone there.

This was done not too far after we had all the anthrax letters going around, so it does evoke that in an office environment.

And all of us have like wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

At Michigan, he would be a formidable recruiter, able to evoke the tradition of his former iconic coach, Bo Schembechler.

There was a child in Marcia, and she could evoke it when she pleased.

Novels tend to evoke war with a dark palette, in “black thoughts and brown funks.”

But in another letter we hear the director who knows how to evoke that torment from his actor and put it on screen.

We have found that, properly understood, there is nothing in it to evoke our pessimism.