what does call down mean?
CALL DOWN as VERB
- Meaning
- censure severely or angrily
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- 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
Hypernyms(s) call down is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic
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- raise the specter of unemployment
- he conjured wild birds in the air
- stir a disturbance
- call down the spirits from the mountain
Hypernyms(s) call down is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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