conjures (up)

verb

present tense third-person singular of conjure (up)
1
as in imagines
to form a mental picture of with certain flowers I instantly conjure up memories of our Caribbean honeymoon

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2
as in summons
to call into being through the use of one's inner resources or powers managed to conjure up the courage to ask the boss for a raise

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conjures (up)
  1. imagines
  2. summons
  3. envisions
  4. gathers
  5. sees
  6. gets up
  7. pictures
  8. dreams
Verb
  • Rooms With the Hanoi Opera House just steps away, each of Capella Hanoi's 47 rooms and suites imagines the private quarters of an opera legend.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Swift appears as a spectral figure trying to warn Johnson that, based on her own experience, her rich husband has more sinister intentions than his current bride imagines.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of imagines
Verb
  • The result, in both its grace notes and its gestalt, freakishly summons the placeless, timeless, sunless anti-aesthetics of a turn-of-the-millennium strip-mall buffet.
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2026
  • On the politics, his statement summons a legacy-killing disaster by wagering that nothing will go wrong, when something likely will go wrong during his presidency.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of summons
Verb
  • Martin envisions new housing projects along with restaurants as a part of reviving Main, where blight and neglect were steadily gaining ground until former Mayor Mike Walsh began a revitalization drive.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The tech giant envisions a network of people’s personal AI agents interacting with businesses’ AI agents instead of navigating through a website.
    — Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of envisions
Verb
  • The new book also gathers behind-the-scenes photos from the 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense, which returned to theaters for a limited engagement in 2023.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Atlas Workshops is one prong of Marrakech’s Atlas Programs banner, which gathers the professional initiatives of the Marrakech International Film Festival.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of gathers
Verb
  • Future quantum applications The team sees potential applications in electronics that consume less power and switch states rapidly.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
  • What the Collective[i] network sees says the answer is faster than almost anyone expects.
    — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of sees
Verb
  • Bastian gets up, goes inside, and sits down with his family for dinner.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The moment when the audience gets up, goes to the restroom, orders drinks, and chats in the hallway.
    — Olivier Bouchara, Vanity Fair, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of gets up
Verb
  • Pawlikowski is also the director of the 2013 Ida, as well 2018’s Cold War, pictures that, like this one, deftly balance postwar Eastern Bloc realities with the truth that all humans strive for connection and belonging.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Roddy Ho is not written as physically fit in Mick Herron’s Slough House books, on which the Apple TV spy show is based — though the character certainly pictures himself that way.
    — Lisa de los Reyes, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of pictures
Verb
  • But there is still hope in a season with 13 games left and Super Bowl dreams flickering.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Rounding out their trio is Hazel (Kennedi Reece), a sweet, naive young woman, completely sheltered by her conservative upbringing but determined to follow her Michelle Obama dreams.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of dreams
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