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call down

 
Verb call down has 2 senses
  1. raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth - evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
    --1 is one way to make, create
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. call on the carpet, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast - censure severely or angrily; "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"
    --2 is one way to knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
call at call attention call back call box call boy call center call centre call code call down call fire call for call forth call forwarding call girl call girls call in call into question

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