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Invoke

To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; as, to invoke the Supreme Being, or to invoke His and blessing.

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Verb group 4

Evoke 84% connected

To call out; to summon forth.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Evoke 84% connected

To call out; to summon forth.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Provoke 84% connected

To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Provoke 84% connected

To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 9

Advert 76% connected

To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bespeak 76% connected

To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cite 76% connected

To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Mention 76% connected

A speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Name 76% connected

The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Quest 76% connected

The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Refer 76% connected

To carry or send back.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Request 76% connected

The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Summon 76% connected

To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; -- often with up.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 8

Beshrew 76% connected

To curse; to execrate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bless 76% connected

To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Curse 76% connected

To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Damn 76% connected

To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Imprecate 76% connected

To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Maledict 76% connected

Accursed; abominable.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Plead 76% connected

of Plead

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 2

Invocation 74% connected

The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being; earnest and solemn entreaty; esp., prayer offered to a divine being.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Invocation 74% connected

The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being; earnest and solemn entreaty; esp., prayer offered to a divine being.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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See also 2

Call 66% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Call 66% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 6

Appeal 92% connected

To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injust…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Arouse 92% connected

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Conjure 92% connected

To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Evoke 92% connected

To call out; to summon forth.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Raise 92% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stir 92% connected

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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