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conjure

/ˈkʌn.d͡ʒə/US/ˈkɑn.d͡ʒɚ/

conjure verb: to perform magic tricks.

Verb

conjure (third-person singular simple present conjures, present participle conjuring, simple past and past participle conjured)

  1. (intransitive) To perform magic tricks.
    • He started conjuring at the age of 15, and is now a famous stage magician.
  2. (transitive) To summon (a devil, etc.) using supernatural power.
    • We all technically have the ability to conjure, just like Caine. It just comes naturally to him, but requires a lot more skill and concentration for us.2026 March 20, Gooseworx, “hjsakldfhl” (21:28 from the start), in The Amazing Digital Circus, episode 8, spoken by Kinger (Sean Chiplock)
  3. (archaic, intransitive) To practice black magic.
    • "Thou great Norman lump!" he muttered. "If I conjure till Doomsday, I cannot make thee gold."1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 7
  4. (archaic, transitive) To enchant or bewitch.
  5. (transitive) To evoke.
  6. (transitive) To imagine or picture in the mind.
    • There was a deep silence, while Helen's vivid fancy conjured up the scene. She knew the small neat room—she had been with Mrs. Palmer to see it; the cheerful garden filled with flowers, the hum of the distant play-ground, the rosy clusters of an acacia-tree, whose branches almost came in at the...1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 51
  7. (archaic, transitive) To make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech.
    • I conjure you, let him know, / Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it.1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene (please specify |scene=iii or iv), page 8
    • Stammering out something, I knew not what, I rolled away from him against the wall, and then conjured him, whoever or whatever he might be, to keep quiet, and let me get up and light the lamp again.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
  8. (intransitive, obsolete) To conspire or plot.
    • Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons / Conjured against the Highest.1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

Noun

conjure (uncountable)

  1. (African-American Vernacular) The practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.

conjure meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

conjure in Urdu

to imagine or picture in the mind
تصوّر میں لانا

conjure in Bengali

জাদু দেখানো, আবিষ্কার করা

conjure in Malayalam

produce, make something appear, materialize
ആവിഷ്കരിക്കുക, പ്രത്യക്ഷമാക്കുക, ദൃശ്യരൂപം കൊടുക്കുക, മുമ്പിൽ ഹാജരാക്കുക, ജാലവിദ്യകൊണ്ടു വരുത്തുക, വിളിച്ചുവരുത്തുക
call to mind, bring to mind, evoke
ഓർക്കുക, സ്മരണയിൽ എത്തിക്കുക, ഓർമ്മപ്പെടുത്തുക, ആവാഹിക്കുക, പരോക്ഷമായി സൂചിപ്പിക്കുക, തൊട്ടുണർത്തുക

conjure in Kannada

ಇಂದ್ರಜಾಲಮಾಡು, ಯಕ್ಷಿಣಿ ಮಾಡು, ಮಂತ್ರ ಹಾಕು
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conjure in Persian
احضار کردن ehzâr kardan

Examples of conjure in a sentence

  • The wizard conjured up a large fireball.
  • The only outfit I could conjure up was a capacious linen shift and a saggy cotton-wool cardigan.
  • The damsel-in-distress archetype probably conjures up images of delicate maidens and chivalrous gentlemen.

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Synonyms of conjure

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Forms of conjure

third-person singular presentconjures
present participleconjuring
past participleconjured
pastconjured

Past tense of conjure: conjured

Origin of conjure

From Middle English conjuren, from Old French conjurer, from Latin coniūrō (“to swear together; conspire”), from con- (“with, together”) + iūro (“to swear or take an oath”).

Words formed from conjure

Phrases with conjure

Questions about conjure

What does conjure mean?
Conjure means to perform magic tricks.
What is conjure in Urdu?
Conjure in Urdu is تصوّر میں لانا. See Conjure meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is conjure?
Conjure can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce conjure?
Conjure is pronounced /ˈkʌn.d͡ʒə/ (UK).
What is the past tense of conjure?
The past tense of conjure is conjured.

Words near conjure in the dictionary

  1. conjurable
  2. conjuration
  3. conjurations
  4. conjurator
  5. conjurators
  6. conjure
  7. conjure man
  8. conjure men
  9. conjure up
  10. conjure woman
  11. conjured

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: conjure (page history and authors); conjure (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conjure (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); conjure (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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