call away

Synonyms for call away

verb divert attention; confuse

early 14c., from call (v.). Sense of "a short formal visit" is from 1862.

Mr. Hasker, call away the cutter's crew and have them in readiness.

Call away the crews of the pinnace and first and second cutters.

"Call away the jolly-boat, and man her with an armed crew," said Harry.

To call away attention from the place where the money's banked we decided to cause an upset pretty adjacent.

What would I not have given at that moment, had a courier entered to call away my dancer.

Happily on my estates they are good friends together, but I could not call away men from their homes, at a time like this.

Now, you know what youve got to expect, master, so call away as quick as you like; the dog will soon stop that game.

Compliments are the makeshifts of the elderly to call away attention from their spindleshanks.

He pretended a wrong sustained, that he might call away attention from a wrong which he designed.

Capt. Jones saw that the ardor of his crew was beyond his control, and ordered the bugler to call away the boarders.