CONJURE UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conjure up mean? 

• CONJURE UP (verb)
  The verb CONJURE UP has 1 sense:

1. summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

  Familiarity information: CONJURE UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONJURE UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

call down the spirits from the mountain

Hypernyms (to "conjure up" is one way to...):

call up; summon (cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively)

Verb group:

call forth; evoke; kick up; provoke (evoke or provoke to appear or occur)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "conjure up"):

anathemise; anathemize; bedamn; beshrew; curse; damn; imprecate; maledict (wish harm upon; invoke evil upon)

bless (give a benediction to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

They often speculated over his past, and tried to conjure up (from what they had read and heard) what his northland life had been.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

For, coz, since all thoughts are things, you have but to think a pair of herrings, and then conjure up a pottle of milk wherewith to wash them down.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is no pleasant picture I can conjure up of myself, Humphrey Van Weyden, in that noisome ship’s galley, crouched in a corner over my task, my face raised to the face of the creature about to strike me, my lips lifted and snarling like a dog’s, my eyes gleaming with fear and helplessness and the courage that comes of fear and helplessness.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Such had he imagined the angels, and such he had tried to paint them in the Beaulieu missals; but here there was something human, were it only in the battered hawk and discolored dress, which sent a tingle and thrill through his nerves such as no dream of radiant and stainless spirit had ever yet been able to conjure up.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)