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invoke

/in-vohk/US // ɪnˈvoʊk //UK // (ɪnˈvəʊk) //

启用,召唤,呼叫,謼

Related Words

conjure变戏法,变魔术,变出,变戏法儿apply应用,适用,申请,适用于enforce强制执行,执行,强制实施,强制实行beseech恳求,恳请,求告,求助pray祈祷,祷告,祷,祈祷吧request要求,请求,请,求beg乞讨,乞求,恳求,恳请importune进口,进口的,进口商,进口商品summon召唤,召见,传唤,召集entreat恳求,恳请,哀求,恳求说implore恳求,哀求,恳请,祈求crave渴望,热望,渴望着,贪恋solicit征求意见,邀约,征求,征集plead恳求,辩护,辩护人,哀求supplicate哀求,哀告,苦苦哀求,恳求adjure劝告,劝说,劝诫,判决petition请愿书,呈请书,请愿,请示initiate启动,发起,倡议,开始use使用,用,运用,利用implement实施,执行,落实,贯彻执行

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    in·voked, in·vok·ing.

    • : to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
    • : to call on, as in prayer or supplication.
    • : to declare to be binding or in effect: to invoke the law; to invoke a veto.
    • : to appeal to, as for confirmation.
    • : to petition or call on for help or aid.
    • : to call forth or upon by incantation.
    • : to cause, call forth, or bring about.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbcall upon
Forms: invoked, invoking
Synonyms
appeal to呼吁,诉求,诉诸于,诉诸conjure变戏法,变魔术,变出,变戏法儿adjure劝告,劝说,劝诫,判决beg乞讨,乞求,恳求,恳请beseech恳求,恳请,求告,求助crave渴望,热望,渴望着,贪恋entreat恳求,恳请,哀求,恳求说implore恳求,哀求,恳请,祈求importune进口,进口的,进口商,进口商品petition请愿书,呈请书,请愿,请示plead恳求,辩护,辩护人,哀求pray祈祷,祷告,祷,祈祷吧request要求,请求,请,求solicit征求意见,邀约,征求,征集summon召唤,召见,传唤,召集supplicate哀求,哀告,苦苦哀求,恳求call forth唤起,召唤,召见,召来send for送给,发送给,寄给,送去给
verbput into effect
Forms: invoked, invoking
Synonyms
apply应用,适用,申请,适用于enforce强制执行,执行,强制实施,强制实行resort to诉诸于,诉诸,诉求于,诉诸法律effect效果,影响,作用,效应implement实施,执行,落实,贯彻执行initiate启动,发起,倡议,开始use使用,用,运用,利用call in呼叫,拜访,呼叫在,召见have recourse to诉诸,诉诸于,可求助于,可诉诸于

Examples

  • He invoked his trustworthiness as a pastor, narrated facts about the vaccine over the nursing home’s public announcement system and reminded staff that nothing had happened to him or the others who had been vaccinated.

  • Yet our country has failed to invoke the Defense Production Act to produce enough masks for health-care workers and other essential workers.

  • O’Connell is fond of invoking instincts in explaining how rituals unfold.

  • If the case were moved to arbitration, the company could invoke immunity there as well, experts say.

  • In his victory speech, Warnock, 51, invoked Georgia’s history of racial oppression and voter suppression by hailing his vote from his mother.

  • Before you invoke images of a nation enjoying more indolence than industry, there is an uncomfortable statistic to digest.

  • Alas, I must invoke Marx, because it is a question of limited resources.

  • Do I, a law professor, get to invoke the privilege when I write a piece for The Daily Beast?

  • Does a personal blogger writing on Facebook get to invoke the privilege?

  • Perhaps; but why do these films invoke Greek history at all, if they aim only at visual fantasy?

  • I round the threshold wandering here,Vainly the tempest and the rain invoke,That they may keep my lady prisoner.

  • How far off and faint seem the years of that dead crime my brother would invoke for the punishment of this sweet soul!

  • Dan waited for him to invoke deity with the asthmatic wheeziness to which mirth reduced his vocal apparatus.

  • Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invoke his aid against the other.

  • But what liberty can he invoke—he who has disavowed and injured all liberties?

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