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View definitions for calling up

calling up

adjective as in evocative

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Israel is calling up large numbers of reservists for the first time in years.

I repeated, involuntarily, the word calling up a latent doubt that lay in my mind.

This Evans did, calling up the Titanic and sending: "We are stopped and surrounded by ice."

The calling up of the Hindu prophet, however, I thought was a fine piece of audacity.

Our host is calling up his troops; I think the guests ought to find battle-stations, too.

Our contest lasted for some time, and he at length terminated it by ringing the bell, and calling up the waiter.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to calling up, such as: expressive, reminiscent, graphic, redolent, remindful of, and resonant with.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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