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invokeverb to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)we should be prepared for the possibility that any solution may invoke another set of problems beget, breed, bring, bring about, bring on, catalyze, cause, create, do, draw on, effect, effectuate, engender, generate, induce, make, occasion, produce, prompt, result (in), spawn, translate (into), work, yield conduce (to), contribute (to)decide, determinebegin, establish, father, found, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, launch, pioneer, set, set up, startadvance, cultivate, develop, encourage, forward, foster, further, nourish, nurture, promoteenact, render, turn out bring forth, give rise to impede, limit, restrictclamp down (on), crack down (on), crush, dampen, put down, quash, quell, repress, smother, squash, squelch, stifle, subdue, suppressarrest, check, control, curb, inhibit, rein (in), restrain, retardcan(slang), kill, snuff (out), stillabolish, demolish, destroy, extinguish, liquidate, quench in the 15th century |