conjure

Definition

  • verb: to make (something) appear or seem to appear by using magic
  • verb: to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly
  • usually + 'up'
  • synonyms: adjure, conspire, confederate

Examples

  • The title of the book 'conjures' [='evokes'] images of politics, protest, and war.

  • In the movie she has the power to 'conjure up' storms, fires, and earthquakes.

  • For many, the word “Greenland” 'conjures up' images of vast, icy plains.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Do I look to be in a gaming mood? You should thank me. With the Bifrost gone, how much dark energy did the Allfather have to muster to conjure you here to your precious Earth? I thought you dead. Did you mourn? We all did. Our father... Your father. (..)
    2012 The Avengers