evoking
- 1Present participle and gerund of evoke.
The director's use of muted colors succeeded in evoking a sense of quiet dread.
Evoking the spirit of older protest songs, the band opened with a stripped-down acoustic set.
Note
One -ing spelling doing two jobs, with the silent e of evoke dropped before the suffix. As a participle it builds progressive tenses (the photographs are evoking old memories); as a gerund it heads a noun phrase (evoking the past was the point). In both roles it keeps the verb's transitive grip and needs an object: a feeling, an image in the mind, or a response it draws out.
evoking is a form of evoke
evoke, verb: To bring forth a feeling, image, or memory in someone's mind or imagination. Full entry
- Spelling
- evoke → evoking: drop the e, add -ing
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