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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
call down en · VERB
Meanings
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(historical) To lower (a price, value) by official proclamation.
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(transitive) To bring (punishment, condemnation etc.) upon someone, as from above.
I shall call down God's wrath upon you!
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(obsolete, transitive) To call for (a speaker) to stop speaking and sit down.
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(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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Relateds
call in · call down on the carpet