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invoked

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

被调用的,被邀请的,被调用,被引用的

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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

Examples

  • Beiser clearly has not been convicted of a crime, which rules out one avenue for invoking the removal process.

  • A president can, in extreme cases, invoke the rarely used Insurrection Act to use the military for law enforcement.

  • It spoke to imminent arrest warrants while invoking another government-sounding entity.

  • In October 2017, a Bismarck police officer invoked Marsy’s Law after shooting and wounding a man who he said punched him and gouged his eyes.

  • You also don’t need to invoke Marsbot with a “hotword” like “Hey Google.”

  • Most often, the doctrine is invoked by minors seeking an abortion without parental consent.

  • That idea is often invoked in regards to the tricks memory plays, but I wonder how it might come into play in other ways.

  • Its blasphemy law, which carries the death penalty, is frequently invoked and just as frequently misused.

  • More clumsily, fireworks stand in for the Big Bang and a potato and peas are invoked to explain relativity.

  • The juror is said to have invoked common sense in the face of the statutes as codified by the State of Illinois.

  • Have mercy on thy people, upon whom thy name is invoked: and upon Israel, whom thou hast raised up to be thy firstborn.

  • The oath is a solemn appeal to God, invoked as witness, that some statement made is true.

  • The reason why these saints are invoked as a group is said to have been an epidemic which devastated Europe from 1346 to 1349.

  • The divinities whom he invoked he celebrated with rites corresponding with those traits which they represented.

  • You shake the sky, as if on the search for food; you are invoked by many, like the solar horse of the day.