call forth

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verb

1. evoke or provoke to appear or occur
- Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple
• Syn:
provoke, evoke, kick up
• Derivationally related forms:
evocation (for: evoke), provocation (for: provoke)
• Hypernyms:
cause, do, make
• Hyponyms:
pick
• Verb Group:
raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke,
stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- raise the specter of unemployment
- he conjured wild birds in the air
- call down the spirits from the mountain
• Syn:
raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke,
stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward
• Derivationally related forms:
evocation (for: evoke), invocation (for: invoke), conjurer (for: conjure), conjuration (for: conjure), conjuror (for: conjure), conjury (for: conjure), conjuring (for: conjure)
• Hypernyms:
make, create
• Hyponyms:
curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize,
anathemise, imprecate, maledict, bless
• Verb Group:
provoke, evoke, kick up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something