call forth

call forth
verb
1. evoke or provoke to appear or occur
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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:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

2. summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
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raise the specter of unemployment

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he conjured wild birds in the air

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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:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

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transitive verb
: to bring into being or action : elicit

these events call forth great emotions

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call forth
To evoke
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Main Entry: ↑call

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ˌcall ˈforth [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they call forth he/she/it calls forth present participle calling forth past tense called forth past participle called forth] formal phrasal verb
to produce a particular reaction
Thesaurus: to produce a reaction or resultsynonym
Main entry: call

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call forth [phrasal verb]
call forth (something) or call (something) forth : to bring (a memory, image, etc.) into the mind

These events call forth [=elicit, evoke] strong feelings.

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Main Entry: ↑call
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call forth — see ↑call, 1
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Main Entry: ↑forth

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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