invokeverb [ T ]
uk/ɪnˈvəʊk/us/ɪnˈvoʊk/formalto use a law in order to achieve something, or to mention something in order to explain something or to support your opinion or action:
Police can invoke the law to regulate access to these places.
to request help from someone, especially a god, when you want to improve a situation:
Their sacred dance is performed to invoke ancient gods.
to make someone have a particular feeling or remember something
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Making appeals & requests
- a cry for help idiom
- appellate
- application
- ask for sb
- beseech
- besiege
- besought
- bum
- cri de coeur
- crowdsource
- freeloader
- gateway
- go over sb's head idiom
- hit
- hit sb up
- I'll thank you to do sth idiom
- pester
- petition
- request
- scrounge
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invocation
noun [ C or U ] uk/ˌɪn.vəˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌɪn.vəˈkeɪ.ʃən/