Synonyms of the word invoke


INVOKEADVERT - APPEAL - AROUSE - BESPEAK - CITE - CONJURE - CREATE - EVOKE - MAKE - MENTION - NAME - QUEST - RAISE - REFER - REQUEST - STIR

invoke

  • v. (transitive) To call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
  • v. (transitive) To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.
  • v. (transitive) To conjure up with incantations.
  • v. (transitive) To bring about as an inevitable consequence.
  • v. (transitive) To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.

advert

  • n. (Britain, informal) An advertisement, an ad.
  • v. To turn attention.
  • v. To call attention, refer; construed with to.

appeal

  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To accuse (someone of something).
  • v. (transitive, law, chiefly US, informal elsewhere) To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior…
  • v. (intransitive) To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to…
  • v. (intransitive) To call on (someone) for aid.
  • v. (intransitive) To be attractive.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by…
  • v. To summon; to challenge.
  • v. To invoke.
  • n. (law).
  • n. A summons to answer to a charge.
  • n. A call to a person or an authority for help, proof or a decision; entreaty.
  • n. Resort to physical means; recourse.
  • n. The power to attract or interest.

arouse

  • v. To stimulate feelings.
  • v. To sexually stimulate.
  • v. To wake from sleep or stupor.

bespeak

  • v. (transitive) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.
  • v. (transitive) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.
  • v. (transitive) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To forbode; foretell.
  • v. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To speak to; address.
  • v. (transitive) To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest.
  • v. (intransitive) To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.
  • n. A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.

cite

  • v. To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
  • v. To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
  • v. To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
  • n. (informal) a citation.

conjure

  • v. (intransitive) To perform magic tricks.
  • v. (transitive) To summon up using supernatural power, as a devil.
  • v. (intransitive) To practice black magic.
  • v. (transitive) To evoke.
  • v. (transitive) To imagine or picture in the mind.
  • v. (transitive) To make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To conspire or plot.
  • n. (African American Vernacular) A practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.

create

  • v. (transitive) To bring into existence.
  • v. (transitive) To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
  • v. (intransitive) To be creative, imaginative.
  • v. (transitive) To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
  • v. (transitive) To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or…
  • v. (transitive) To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
  • adj. (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.

evoke

  • v. To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.

make

  • v. (transitive, heading) To create.
  • v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
  • v. To constitute.
  • v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
  • v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
  • v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
  • v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
  • v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
  • v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
  • v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
  • v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
  • v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
  • v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
  • v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
  • v. To appoint; to name.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
  • v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
  • v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
  • v. To enact; to establish.
  • v. To develop into; to prove to be.
  • v. To form or formulate in the mind.
  • v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
  • v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
  • v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
  • v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
  • v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
  • n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
  • n. How a thing is made; construction.
  • n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
  • n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
  • n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
  • n. A person's character or disposition.
  • n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
  • n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
  • n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
  • n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
  • n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
  • n. (slang, military) A promotion.
  • n. A home-made project.
  • n. (basketball) A made basket.
  • n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
  • n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

mention

  • n. A speaking or notice of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase…
  • v. To make a short reference to something.
  • v. (philosophy, linguistics) To utter an word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as…

name

  • n. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
  • n. Reputation.
  • n. An abusive or insulting epithet.
  • n. A person (or legal person).
  • n. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
  • n. (computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
  • n. (Britain, finance) An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
  • v. (transitive) To give a name to.
  • v. (transitive) To mention, specify.
  • v. (transitive) To identify as relevant or important.
  • v. (transitive) To publicly implicate.
  • v. (transitive) To designate for a role.
  • n. Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

quest

  • n. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
  • n. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
  • n. (obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
  • n. (obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
  • n. (obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
  • v. To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
  • v. To search for; to examine.
  • v. (entomology, of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.

raise

  • v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
  • v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
  • v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
  • v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
  • v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
  • v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
  • v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
  • v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
  • n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
  • n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
  • n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
  • n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
  • n. A cairn or pile of stones.

refer

  • v. (transitive) To direct the attention of.
  • v. (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
  • v. (transitive) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause,…
  • v. (intransitive, construed with to) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
  • v. (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence.
  • v. (computing) To address a specific location in computer memory.

request

  • n. Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
  • n. A formal message requesting something.
  • n. Condition of being sought after.
  • n. (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
  • v. to express the need or desire for.
  • v. to ask somebody to do something.

stir

  • v. (transitive, dated) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
  • v. (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something…
  • v. (transitive) To agitate the content of (a container) by passing something through it.
  • v. (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
  • v. (transitive) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
  • v. (intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.
  • v. (intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
  • v. (intransitive) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
  • v. (intransitive, poetic) To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.
  • n. The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
  • n. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
  • n. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
  • n. (slang) Jail; prison.

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