Vocabulary
Invoke
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
cite or appeal to (someone or something) as an authority for an action or in support of an argument.
Urdu meaning
مدد طلب کرنا، دعا کرنا، بلانا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- If the obligations under the SMDA are called upon, the axis of power in the region will invoke a wider involvement.
- They maintain it and often invoke prayers for the safety and security of its inhabitants.
- Leaders regularly invoke slogans like `digital transformation`, without knowing what it means or taking any practical steps.
- It is militarising a long-running subterranean civil war by putting the military on the streets without provocation and without bothering to invoke legal justification.
- Before its passage, while the actual drafts remained concealed, there were the supposed democrats who would invoke the doctrine of political constitutionalism at every opportunity they got.
Synonyms
cite, refer to, adduce, instance, resort to, have recourse to, turn to, call into use,
Curator example
“the antiquated defence of insanity is rarely invoked in England”
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