conjure up
English
Verb
conjure up (third-person singular simple present conjures up, present participle conjuring up, simple past and past participle conjured up)
- (transitive) To create or produce something, seemingly magically.
- (transitive) To call up or command a spirit or devil by an incantation.
- (transitive) To generate (an image or an idea) in one's mind.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 252:
- Like most persons utterly unused to deception, she could not imagine how it was to be managed; and her thoughts conjured up every probable and improbable embarrassment that might occur.
- 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 164:
- Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
- 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
- For his part, he told the New York Times in 2019 that he didn’t feel he could conjure up the requisite malevolence to play certain roles.
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Translations
To create or produce something, seemingly magically.
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To generate (an image or an idea) in one's mind.
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