Evoke vs Provoke - What's the difference?
evoke | provoke |
To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.
to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
* Bible, Eph. vi. 4
to bring about a reaction.
* J. Burroughs
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(obsolete) To appeal.
Provoke is a synonym of evoke.
As verbs the difference between evoke and provoke
is that evoke is to cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination while provoke is to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.evoke
English
Verb
- 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.
Derived terms
* *provoke
English
Verb
(provok)- Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.
- Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
- To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.
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- (Dryden)