INVOKE meaning: Call upon for assistance, support

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word invoke:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

invoke: Merriam-Webster.com
invoke: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
invoke: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
invoke: Collins English Dictionary
invoke: Vocabulary.com
Invoke, invoke: Wordnik
invoke: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Invoke, invoke: Wiktionary
invoke: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
invoke: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
invoke: Infoplease Dictionary
invoke: Dictionary.com
invoke: Online Etymology Dictionary
invoke: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Invoke (smart speaker), Invoke: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Invoke: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
invoke: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
invoke: Rhymezone
Invoke: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
invoke: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
invoke: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
invoke: Free Dictionary
invoke: Mnemonic Dictionary
invoke: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
invoke: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

Webopedia (No longer online)
invoke: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

invoke: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

invoke: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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

Types:

call, invocation, invokement, invokation, invocationism, invokative, more...

Phrases:

to invoke, to invoke a feeling, dictate invoke muster, ability to invoke, more...

Colors:

midnight blue, charcoal, indigo, amethyst, obsidian, more...

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