Word.ws English Dictionary

conjured up

conjured up is the simple past and past participle of conjure up.

Meaning of conjure up

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To create or produce something, seemingly magically.
  2. (transitive) To call up or command a spirit or devil by an incantation.
  3. (transitive) To generate (an image or an idea) in one's mind.
    • 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.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 252

Questions about conjured up

What is conjured up the simple past and past participle of?
Conjured up is the simple past and past participle of conjure up.

Words near conjured up in the dictionary

  1. conjure man
  2. conjure men
  3. conjure up
  4. conjure woman
  5. conjured
  6. conjured up
  7. conjureman
  8. conjuremen
  9. conjurement
  10. conjurements
  11. conjurer

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: conjured up (page history and authors); conjure up (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “conjured up.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/conjured_up. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.