invoke 的定义
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.
invoke 近义词
call upon
put into effect
更多invoke例句
- 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?