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English verb: call down | |||
| 1. | call down (creation) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | ||
| Samples | Raise the specter of unemployment. He conjured wild birds in the air. Call down the spirits from the mountain. | ||
| Synonyms | arouse, bring up, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | create, make | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, bless, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict | ||
| Verb group | call forth, evoke, kick up, provoke | ||
| 2. | call down (communication) censure severely or angrily | ||
| Samples | The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car. The deputy ragged the Prime Minister. The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup. | ||
| Synonyms | bawl out, berate, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, take to task, trounce | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | criticise, criticize, knock, pick apart | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | brush down, castigate, chasten, chastise, correct, objurgate, tell off | ||
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