Evoke vs Waken - What's the difference?
evoke | waken | Related terms |
To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.
(lb) To awake or rouse from sleep; to stir.
(lb) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Early, Turnus wakening with the light.
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*:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
As verbs the difference between evoke and waken
is that evoke is to cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination while waken is to awake or rouse from sleep; to stir.evoke
English
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- Being here evokes long forgotten memories.
- Seeing this happen equally evokes fear and anger in me.
- The book evokes a detailed and lively picture of what life was like in the 19th century.
