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elicit

verb

🔊/ɪˈlɪsɪt/

🔊/ɪˈlɪsɪt/

(formal)

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they elicit	🔊/ɪˈlɪsɪt/ 🔊/ɪˈlɪsɪt/
he / she / it elicits	🔊/ɪˈlɪsɪts/ 🔊/ɪˈlɪsɪts/
past simple elicited	🔊/ɪˈlɪsɪtɪd/ 🔊/ɪˈlɪsɪtɪd/
past participle elicited	🔊/ɪˈlɪsɪtɪd/ 🔊/ɪˈlɪsɪtɪd/
-ing form eliciting	🔊/ɪˈlɪsɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ɪˈlɪsɪtɪŋ/

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elicit something (from somebody) to get information or a reaction from somebody, often with difficulty引出；探出；诱出
- I could elicit no response from him.我从他那里套不出任何反应。🔊🔊
- Her tears elicited great sympathy from her audience.她的眼泪博得观众的无限同情。🔊🔊
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
Elicit is used with these nouns as the object:
chuckle
comment
emotion
…
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Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin elicit- ‘drawn out by trickery or magic’, from the verb elicere, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + lacere ‘entice, deceive’.