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calls down

calls down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of call down.

Meaning of call down

Verb

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

  1. (historical) To lower (a price, value) by official proclamation.
  2. (transitive) To bring (punishment, condemnation etc.) upon someone, as from above.
    • I shall call down God's wrath upon you!
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To call for (a speaker) to stop speaking and sit down.
  4. (Canada, US, colloquial, transitive) To reprimand or insult (someone) severely.
    • He will call down his secretary if the latter's trousers are not well creased or his shoes not polished to a sparkle.1946, A. A. Brill, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, Alfred Knopf, page 211

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What is calls down the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Calls down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of call down.

Words near calls down in the dictionary

  1. calls around
  2. calls away
  3. calls back
  4. calls balls and strikes
  5. calls collect
  6. calls down
  7. calls for
  8. calls forth
  9. calls in
  10. calls in sick
  11. calls in the wilderness

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