All 8 Uses of
conjure
in
Educated, by Tara Westover
- The memory was formed when I was five, just before I turned six, from a story my father told in such detail that I and my brothers and sister had each conjured our own cinematic version, with gunfire and shouts.†
p. 3.2conjured = summoned into action or brought into existence
- Then it was drowned out by sounds from another conjured remembrance—crickets, then gunfire, then silence.†
p. 8.2 *
- When I picture her now I conjure a single image, as if my memory is a slide projector and the tray is stuck.†
p. 30.3conjure = summon into action or bring into existence
- I don't know what I saw—what creature I conjured from that violent, compassionate act—but I think it was my father, or perhaps my father as I wished he were, some longed-for defender, some fanciful champion, one who wouldn't fling me into a storm, and who, if I was hurt, would make me whole.†
p. 97.8conjured = summoned into action or brought into existence
- I tried to conjure other scenes in which she and her father were of two minds.†
p. 132.7conjure = summon into action or bring into existence
- My brain conjured so many scenes of disaster, it burned as if with a fever.†
p. 135.1conjured = summoned into action or brought into existence
- I tried to imagine the future, to populate it with professors, homework, classrooms, but my mind couldn't conjure them.†
p. 150.4conjure = summon into action or bring into existence
- After a month in the junkyard, BYU seemed like a dream, something I'd conjured.†
p. 170.1conjured = summoned into action or brought into existence
Definition:
summon into action or bring into existence -- often as if by magic