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Call Forth

Definition: Call Forth

Call Forth

Verb

1. Call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple".

2. Evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic: "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Call Forth

Synonyms: arouse (v), bring up (v), call down (v), conjure (v), conjure up (v), evoke (v), invoke (v), kick up (v), provoke (v), put forward (v), raise (v), stir (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Call Forth

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Excitation

Verb: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.

Use

Render useful; mold; turn to account, turn to use; convert to use, utilize; work up; call into play, bring into play; put into requisition; call forth, draw forth; press into service, enlist into the service; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply, adhibit, dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat's-paw of.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Call Forth

English words defined with "call forth": arousebreed, bring upcall down, conjure, conjure upelicit, engender, enkindle, evokefireinvokekick up, kindleprovoke, put forwardraisespawn, stirTo call forth. (references)

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Sounds Captioned with "Call Forth".

PlayCaption
Activate; alert; animate; arouse; awaken; call forth; enliven; excite; incite; kindle; provoke; revive; stimulate; stir up; vivify; awake.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Call Forth

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

These passages in the lives of happy couples are a profound appeal to life and nature, and call forth endearment and light from everything.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

He tried to call forth some of its vivid moments but could not.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: Call Forth

Expression using "call forth": To call forth. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Call Forth

Language Translations for "call forth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shkaktoj (afflict, arouse, beget, breed, bring about, cause, contrive, create, do, draw, effectuate, engender, evoke, give, incur, induce, inflict, inspire, move, procure, produce, put, raise, sow, start, stir, strike, unchain, work, wreak), përdor (apply, employ, exercise, exploit, manipulate, participate, reclaim, take, use, utilize, wield). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

събирам (accumulate, add, add together, add up, aggregate, amass, assemble, bring together, call together, club, collect, compile, congregate, cumulate, drum up, embody, enlist, foot, furl, garner, gather, get together, harvest, lump, lump together, mass, muster, muster up, pin down, pull together, punch, raise, rake, rake together, rake up, rally, reassemble, reunite, round up, run up, scare up, sum, sum up, swoop, total, totalize, whip in), напрягам (bend, exert, hump, intensify, overstrain, rack, strain, string up, tense), пущам в действие, пораждам (beget, breed, cause, engender, evoke, gender, generate, give birth, give rise to, give to rise, originate, produce, prompt, provoke, raise, sow, start up, stir). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vyvolat (bring, bring about, call, call up, cause, develop, draw, evoke, induce, initiate, invite, raise, start, stir). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

synnyttää (arouse, be delivered of, be in labour, bear, bring about, cause, create, give birth, give birth to, give rise to, labour, produce), nostattaa (cause, produce, raise, rouse), manata esiin (conjure up), herättää (arouse, awaken, wake, wake up, waken). (various references)

   

German

  

wecken (arouse, awake, awaked, awaken, awoken, bring back, create, excite, kindle, prompt, reveille, revive, rouse, spark, to awake, wake, wake up, waken, waking-up time), wachrufen (call to mind, evocation, evoke, rouse, stir up), hervorrufen (arouse, burgeon, call for, call to come out, cause, cause to take place, create, evocation, evoke, give rise to, induce, stimulate, to cause, to evoke, to excite). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προκαλώ (beget, bring about, bring on, call out, cause, challenge, dare, defy, engender, evoke, fetch, give rise to, induce, provoke), επιστρατεύω (conscript, marshal, mobilize). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kicsal (squeeze out, to call forth, to elicit, to juggle, to screw out, trick up), eredményez (come, eventuate, redound, result, to call forth, to effect, to minister to), előhív (to call forth), előcsal (to call forth). (various references)

   

Italian

  

evocare (conjure, evoke, invoke, to conjure up). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

心が通う (to call forth a response in another's heart, to understand each other well). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

""ろがかよう (to call forth a response in another's heart, to understand each other well). (various references)

   

Manx

  

eamagh magh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allcay orthfay

   

Romanian

  

provoca (abet, agitate, bring, bring on, bring to pass, cause, challenge, create, dare, defy, elicit, encourage, excite, fling down the gauntlet, give, give rise to, impel, incite, induce, instigate, invite, provoke, raise, rouse, spur on, start, stimulate, stir, stir up, throw down the gauntlet, urge, work up), determina (abstract, appoint, ascertain, bring, cause, conditional, convince, define, determine, dictate, draw, entail, establish, find, fix, gather, govern, induce, infer, lead, make, mark out, modify, persuade, procure, produce, prompt, provoke, reason, urge), atrage dupã sine (carry, invite, involve). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

uppbjuda (invite, muster, summon), frammana (conjure up, evoke), framkalla (arouse, bring about, call up, cause, develop, elicit, engender, evoke, excite, fetch, induce, invite, prompt, provoke, recall, set up). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yol açmak (beat a path, beget, blaze the trail, bring about, cause, cut, entail, evoke, give rise to, give smb. a lead, involve, lie behind, raise, set forward), sarfetmek (consume, expend, spend), neden olmak (beget, bring, bring about, bring along, cause, conduce, cost, create, determine, do, draw on, encompass, engender, excite, give rise to, incline, invite, originate, procure, produce, provoke, raise, touch off, trigger), kullanmak (apply, dispose, dispose of, draw on, drive, employ, engage, exert, exploit, handle, harness, head, lay on, make use of, operate, pilot, ply, put account, ride, roll, run, take advantage of, turn to account, use, utilize, wield). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Call Forth

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

calamus, calites, excito, provocabant, provocabat, provocabit, provocabo, provocandam, provocans, provocant, provocantes, provocare, provocarent, provocares, provocaretis, provocas, provocassent, provocasti, provocastis, provocat, provocatrix, provocatum, provocaverat, provocaveris, provocaveritis, provocaverunt, provocavi, provocavimus, provocavit, provocem, provocet, provocetis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Call Forth

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-f-h-l-l-o-r-t"

-2 letters: challot, chloral, trochal.

-3 letters: chalot, cholla, choral, collar, factor, floral, hallot, harlot, thrall.

-4 letters: actor, allot, aloft, altho, atoll, carol, chart, claro, cloth, coral, craft, croft, float, flora, flota, focal, forth, froth, hallo, holla, horal, larch, latch, loach, loath, local, loral, lotah, octal, orach, ratch, roach, rotch, taroc, tolar, torah, torch, troll.

-5 letters: alto.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Sounds
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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