elicit
verb (formal)- 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 DictionaryElicit is used with these nouns as the object:- chuckle
- comment
- emotion
- …
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’.