call forth

Bring into being

To call forth is to summon or bring into existence—typically something intangible like emotions, memories, or abilities.

A photograph might call forth memories of childhood.

A crisis calls forth courage you didn't know you had.

The phrase suggests drawing something out from where it lay dormant or hidden.

command

summon

Call to appear

  • orderMethodical arrangement or request
  • directiveFormal command or instruction
  • instructConvey knowledge or orders

mandate · decree · mobilize · marshal · beckon · charge · demand · commission · muster · rally

evoke

memory

Mind's retention capacity

sensation · recollection · reminiscence · feeling · mood · atmosphere · resonance · sentiment · impression · flashback

inspire

creativity

Capacity for original thought

passion · enthusiasm · ambition · spark · ignite · awaken · stir · muse · vision · imagination

conjure

summon

Call to appear

necromancy · seance · enchantment · spellcasting · séance · medium · spiritualism · divination · apparition · specter

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summoning/evoking

call forthbanish

Officially send away

dismiss · send away · dispel · drive away · repel

eliciting responses or emotions

call forthsuppress

Forcibly put an end to

repress · stifle · quell · squelch · quash

bringing into being

call forthdestroy

Cause complete ruin

eliminate · annihilate · eradicate · obliterate · dissolve

Family

call, forth, conjure, invocation, evocation

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