MEANING
To bring a memory, image, emotion, or response to mind.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- evoke a memory
- evoke unease
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The smell evoked a memory she had never put into words.
The narrow opening evoked unease without revealing a threat.
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Word forms
- Base
- evoke
- Past tense
- evoked
- Past participle
- evoked
- Present participle
- evoking
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- evoke
- Present continuous
- am/is/are evoking
- Present perfect
- have/has evoked
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been evoking
- Past
- evoked
- Past continuous
- was/were evoking
- Past perfect
- had evoked
- Past perfect continuous
- had been evoking
- Future
- will evoke
- Future continuous
- will be evoking
- Future perfect
- will have evoked
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been evoking
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: evoke; evokes; evoked; evoked; evoking Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: evokes.
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