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CALL DOWN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does call down mean?
• CALL DOWN (verb)
The verb CALL DOWN has 2 senses:
1. summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
2. censure severely or angrily
Familiarity information: CALL DOWN used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
arouse; bring up; call down; call forth; conjure; conjure up; evoke; invoke; put forward; raise; stir
Context example:
call down the spirits from the mountain
Hypernyms (to "call down" is one way to...):
call up; summon (cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively)
Verb group:
call forth; evoke; kick up; provoke (evoke or provoke to appear or occur)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call down"):
anathemise; anathemize; bedamn; beshrew; curse; damn; imprecate; maledict (wish harm upon; invoke evil upon)
bless (give a benediction to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Censure severely or angrily
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
bawl out; berate; call down; call on the carpet; chew out; chew up; chide; dress down; have words; jaw; lambast; lambaste; lecture; rag; rebuke; remonstrate; reprimand; scold; take to task; trounce
Context example:
The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
Hypernyms (to "call down" is one way to...):
criticise; criticize; knock; pick apart (find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call down"):
castigate; chasten; chastise; correct; objurgate (censure severely)
brush down; tell off (reprimand)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
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