call down

verb

called down; calling down; calls down
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transitive verb

1
: to cause or entreat to descend
call down a blessing
2
: reprimand
called me down for being late

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Examples of call down in a Sentence

I was called down by my supervisor for not catching the accounting error sooner.
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Ming opened up her fourth floor window and called down to the firefighters below. — Kate Talerico, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2026 Armed with a name, Polyphemus is able to call down his father’s wrath on Odysseus. — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 June 2026 King called down to Branch from the balcony of a hotel where several iconic musicians had made entries into the catalogue of protest music. — Jack Armstrong, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 22 Apr. 2026 For fixes other tenants would normally make themselves, like changing a lightbulb, Ruby would call down June’s husband to act as a handyman. — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 22 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for call down

Word History

First Known Use

1579, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of call down was in 1579

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