conjure up

vb (tr, adverb)

1. to present to the mind; evoke or imagine he conjured up a picture of his childhood

2. to call up or command (a spirit or devil) by an incantation

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Verb

conjure up - summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"

bring up, call down, conjure, invoke, call forth, put forward, arouse, evoke, stir, raise

anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, damn, imprecate, maledict, curse - wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child"

bless - give a benediction to; "The dying man blessed his son"

create, make - make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"

call forth, evoke, kick up, provoke - evoke or provoke to appear or occur; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"

Translations

? conjure up

vt sep ghosts, spirits → beschwören; (fig) memories etc → heraufbeschwören; (= provide, produce) → hervorzaubern; meal → zusammenzaubern

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anathemise
anathemize
bedamn
beshrew
call forth
card trick
coconspire
conjuration
conjure
conjure man
conjuring
conjuring trick
Conjury
evoke
imprecate
invocation
invoke
magic
magic trick

As I mention 'Riverito, Maximina, Un Idilio de un Inferno, La Hermana de San Sulpizio, El Cuarto Poder, Espuma,' the mere names conjure up the scenes and events that have moved me to tears and laughter, and filled me with a vivid sense of the life portrayed in them.

My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context

And Miss Monflathers, the audacious creature who presumed, even in the dimmest and remotest distance of her imagination, to conjure up the degrading picture, 'I am a'most inclined,' said Mrs Jarley, bursting with the fulness of her anger and the weakness of her means of revenge, 'to turn atheist when I think of it

The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context

After all, we have to conjure up ideal poets for ourselves out of those who stand in or behind the range of volumes on our book-shelves; and our ideal Browning would have for his entire structural type those two volumes of Men and Women with Pippa Passes.

The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context