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 quotes

  • (..) 'returning were as tedious as go o'er. 'Strange things I have in head that will to hand, 'which must be acted ere they may be scanned.' I conjure you, by that which you profess, howe'er you come to know it, answer me. Speak, I charge you. Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care who chafes, (..)
    2015 Macbeth