Invoke

Quick meaning: Invoke is a verb meaning (transitive) To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.

Meaning

(transitive) To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.
2. (transitive, nautical, of one ship) To call another ship.
3. (transitive) To call to mind (something) for some purpose.
4. (transitive) To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.
5. (transitive) To conjure up with incantations.
6. (transitive) To bring about as an inevitable consequence.
7. (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.

Example Sentences

It is easier to invoke or to deplore democracy than to say exactly what it is.

In certain Christian circles, invoking the Bible constitutes irrefutable proof.

Whatever the pressures that have invoked the Minister's diktat, the outcome is Gilbertian.

He invoked cadaveric poisoning as the reason for the high death rate among priests and monks […]

Word Forms

• invokes
• invoking
• invoked

Synonyms for invoke

Depending on context, synonyms include invocate, solicit, appeal, petition, signal, evoke.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include appeal, raise, conjure, arouse, stir, evoke.

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