call down

• Verbo frasal usado para indicar invocar algo do alto, como bênçãos ou maldições, ou para repreender alguém com severidade.

A phrasal verb used to indicate the act of summoning something from above, invoking a blessing or curse, or reprimanding someone.

incontável · transitivo · phrasal, separável

1. Summon or invokeformal

   To request or bring something upon someone, often used in a spiritual or formal sense.

   Invocar

   • The priest called down a blessing on the congregation.
   • He called down curses upon his enemies.
   • The ritual was meant to call down the favor of the gods.

   Sinônimoscall forthconjureevokeinvokesummon

2. Reprimand or scoldinformalamerican

   To criticize or speak angrily to someone for a mistake or wrongdoing.

   Repreender

   • The boss called him down for being late to the meeting.
   • She was called down by her mother for breaking the vase.
   • The teacher called down the students for not doing their homework.

   Sinônimosadmonishberatecensurechidedress downlecturerebukereprimandscoldtell offupbraid

   Antônimosapprovecommendcomplimentlaudpraise

Verbo basecall