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call to

call to verb: to tempt (someone or something); to beckon; to be difficult to resist.

Verb

call to (third-person singular simple present calls to, present participle calling to, simple past and past participle called to)

  1. (transitive) To tempt (someone or something); to beckon; to be difficult to resist.
    • I've been handling my diet okay, but french fries still call to me when I go out.
  2. (transitive) To be caused to feel a spiritual urge to join the Catholic priesthood; to be fated to join the Catholic priesthood.

call to meaning in Sanskrit

call to in Sanskrit

to call to
आह्वे āhve

Forms of call to

third-person singular presentcalls to
present participlecalling to
past participlecalled to
pastcalled to

Questions about call to

What does call to mean?
Call to means to tempt (someone or something); to beckon; to be difficult to resist.
What is call to in Sanskrit?
Call to in Sanskrit is आह्वे (āhve). See Call to meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is call to?
Call to is a verb.
What is the past tense of call to?
The past tense of call to is called to.

Words near call to in the dictionary

  1. call the shots
  2. call the tune
  3. call them as one sees them
  4. call time
  5. call times
  6. call to
  7. call to account
  8. call to action
  9. call to arms
  10. call to mind
  11. call to order

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Adapted from Wiktionary: call to (page history and authors); आह्वे (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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