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See definition of calls down on Dictionary.com
  • as inreproach
  • as invilify
  • as inberate
  • as inchasten
  • as inchide
  • as incondemn
  • as inadmonish

synonyms for calls down

  • admonish
  • chide
  • discredit
  • rebuke
  • reprimand
  • scold
  • upbraid
  • abuse
  • blame
  • cavil
  • censure
  • condemn
  • criticize
  • defame
  • disparage
  • jawbone
  • lesson
  • rake
  • ream
  • reprehend
  • reprove
  • trim
  • call down
  • call to task
  • give comeuppance
  • give the devil
  • lay on
  • sit on
  • take to task
On this page you'll find 341 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to calls down, such as: admonish, chide, discredit, rebuke, reprimand, and scold.

antonyms for calls down

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  • commend
  • compliment
  • flatter
  • laud
  • praise
  • approve
  • exalt
  • exonerate
  • sanction
  • compliment
  • flatter
  • laud
  • praise
  • hail
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How to use calls down in a sentence

I cannot contemplate such loveliness and associate it with the execrable sin which calls down vengeance upon this house.
THE CIRCULAR STUDYANNA KATHARINE GREEN
Such a life as this invariably calls down the anger of Venus, and Hamilton had worn out by now the patience of the goddess.
SIX WOMENVICTORIA CROSS
It operates, and no doubt is designed so to do, as a check to that fearful wickedness that calls down such a doom.
LETTERS FROM PALESTINEJ. D. PAXTON
He also calls down upon his head the curses of every student who tries to use his book.
THE BAY STATE MONTHLY, VOLUME 1, ISSUE 5, MAY, 1884VARIOUS
So I imagine the vengeance, the curse which calls down ruin upon the head of a foe.
CLEOPATRA, COMPLETEGEORG EBERS
But in spite of his "concealment," Ulysses has aspiration, which calls down the help of the Gods for fulfillment.
HOMER'S ODYSSEYDENTON J. SNIDER
It subdues the flesh and the world, and calls down Heaven to bless the happy pietist.
AIMS AND AIDS FOR GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMENGEORGE SUMNER WEAVER
It is neat and pretty, and with all its immediate outside belongings calls down no adverse criticism.
NORTH AMERICA, VOLUME II (OF 2)ANTHONY TROLLOPE
I calls down th' companion—'Master,' I says, 'there's somethin' on th' north end o' th' Sands.'
MERCHANTMEN-AT-ARMSDAVID W. BONE
In one of these poems, Golias calls down every kind of misery, spiritual and temporal, upon the man who has stolen his purse.
HISTORY OF ENGLISH HUMOUR, VOL. 1 (OF 2)ALFRED GUY KINGAN L'ESTRANGE
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