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called to

called to is the simple past and past participle of call to.

Meaning of call to

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.

Questions about called to

What is called to the simple past and past participle of?
Called to is the simple past and past participle of call to.

Words near called to in the dictionary

  1. called someone's number
  2. called the shots
  3. called the tune
  4. called them as one saw them
  5. called time
  6. called to
  7. called to account
  8. called to mind
  9. called to order
  10. called to straw
  11. called to task

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Adapted from Wiktionary: called to (page history and authors); call to (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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