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elicit Verb 1. to bring about (a response or reaction): her remarks elicited a sharp retort 2. to draw out (information) from someone: a phone call elicited the fact that she had just awakened [Latin elicere]
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elicit verb 1. bring about, cause, derive, bring out, evoke, give rise to, draw out, bring forth, bring to light, call forth Translations (reaction, response) → (von jdm) bekommen to elicit sth (from sb) → strappare qc (a qn) |
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She smiled to cover her shyness, and I fancied she had a fear that I would make the sort of gibe that such a confession could hardly have failed to elicit from Rose Waterford. He had worked on Bill's feelings so successfully as to elicit a loan of a million dollars, and was just proceeding to marry him to Elizabeth, when the cab stopped with the sudden sharpness peculiar to New York cabs, and he woke up, to find himself at his destination. Qui fortiter emungit, elicit sanguinem; and where the wine-press is hard wrought, it yields a harsh wine, that tastes of the grape-stone. |
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