Call Down

Definition: Call Down

Call Down

Verb

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Call Down

Malediction

Verb: curse, accurse, imprecate, damn, swear at; curse with bell book and candle; invoke curses on the head of, call down curses on the head of; devote to destruction.

Crosswords: Call Down

I used to work for the city health department and you got so many violations in this flea trap that one phone call down town would put your ass in court so fast you wouldn't have time to wipe it let alone pull your pants up. Do you get my drift? (Angel; writing credit: Joseph Michael Cala; Robert Vincent O'Neill)

Gonna call down to this diamond ("Shine"; performing artist: Cyndi Lauper)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "call down": call down curses on smb.'s head ♦ call down curses on the head of ♦ To call down. Additional references.

Albanian

qortoj (admonish, berate, carpet, castigate, chide, come down on, correct, damn, decry, discommend, dish it out, knock, lecture, light into, Peck, pull up, rap, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, take to task, tell off, trim, twit, upbraid), mallkoj (anathematize, ban, curse, damn, darn, dash, execrate, imprecate, swear, vituperate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

карам се (altercate, brabble, brawl, disagree, jangle, quarrel, row, scold, spat, squabble, wrangle), викам да слезе, оспорвам (contest, contravene, controvert, debate, dispute, gainsay, impugn, litigate, oppugn, query, question), мъмря (caution, correct, lecture, lesson, objurgate, rap, rebuke, reprimand, school, scold), призовавам (appeal, call on, call out, conjure, exhort, invoke, summon). (various references)

Czech

proklínat koho (call down curses on smb.'s head). (various references)

German

herunterputzen (blast, slam, tear off a strip), ausschimpfen (bawl out, scold, tell off, tick off, ticking off, to scold). (various references)

Hungarian

megátkoz vkit (to call down curses to sy, to imprecate curses on sy, to imprecate curses upon sy). (various references)

Italian

invocare (appeal to, call upon, demand, invoke). (various references)

Manx

eam sheese, eam neose. (various references)

Pig Latin

allcay ownday.(various references)

Portuguese

ralhar (chide, land on, nag, natterjack, scold), mandar descer, invocar (appeal to, call on, evoke, invoke, involucre). (various references)

Romanian

chema (ask, call, call up, challenge, chuckle, conjure, convene, convoke, entreat, hail, muster, page, ring, shout, signify, summon), sãpuni (lather, soap), ocãrî (abuse, blame, censure, curse, insult, rail, reproach, revile, upbraid, vituperate), invoca (allege, conjure, invocate, invoke, plead, pretend, submit). (various references)

Spanish

poner verde (pick holes in). (various references)

Swedish

skälla ut (abuse, berate, call names, dress down, dust down, insult, lambaste, lash out against, offend, rate, scold, slang, take apart), nedkalla (imprecate). (various references)

Turkish

yerin dibine sokmak, niyaz etmek, dilemek (beg, beseech, desire, plead, solicit, will, wish), azarlamak (admonish, baste, bawl out, berate, blame, blister, blow up, bring up, call smb. over the coals, carpet, castigate, chew out, chide, come down on, decry, dress down, give a piece of one's mind, give smb. a talking-to, give smb. a telling-off, give smb. beans, give smb. hell, give the stick, inveigh, jaw out, keelhaul, lace into, lambaste, lash, lecture, let smb. have it, light into, objurgate, peck at smb., punish, rag, rail, rap smb. over the knuckles, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, roast, sail into, scold, score, slang, slap, slate, strafe, take to task, talk to smb., tell off, tell smb. one's mind, tick off, trim, twit, upbraid, vituperate). (various references)

Ukranian 

покликати вниз. (various references)

devoco, inprecans, inprecantes, inprecatique, inprecatus. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lowland.

-2 letters: callow, clonal.

-3 letters: acold, adown, aldol, allod, allow, clown, llano, local, nodal, waldo, woald.

-4 letters: alow, awol, call, calo, clad, clan, claw, clod, clon, coal, coda, cola, cold, cowl, dawn, doll, dona, down, land, lawn, load, loan, loca, lown, olla, wall, wand, woad, wold.

-5 letters: ado, all, and, awl, awn, cad, can, caw, cod, col, con, cow, dal, daw, doc, dol, don, dow, lac, lad, law, low, naw, nod, now, oca, old, owl, own, wad, wan, won.

+2 letters: allowanced.

+4 letters: disallowance.

+5 letters: disallowances.

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