conjure
/ˈkɑn.d͡ʒɚ/ verb C1- To perform magic tricks. · He started conjuring at the age of 15, and is now a famous stage magician.
- To summon (a devil, etc.) using supernatural power.
- To evoke.
- To imagine or picture in the mind.
He/she/it conjures · Past conjured · Past participle conjured · -ing form conjuring
Verb forms
- Base form
- conjure
- He/she/it
- conjures
- Past
- conjured
- Past participle
- conjured
- -ing form
- conjuring
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His eyes fairly glittered as he spoke, and he put his hand over his heart and bowed as if to some applauding crowd conjured up by his imagination.
If at this moment the sweet voice of Renée had sounded in his ears pleading for mercy, or the fair Mercédès had entered and said, “In the name of God, I conjure you to restore me my affianced husband,” his cold and trembling hands would have signed his release; but no voice broke the stillness of the chamber, and the door was opened only by Villefort’s valet, who came to tell him that the travelling carriage was in readiness.
“My father has revealed the culprit’s name; my father thirsts for revenge as much as you do, yet even he conjures you as I do to keep this secret.
Pale, and sweetly smiling, she looked like an angel of mercy conjuring the angel of vengeance.
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