calls up

Synonyms for calls up

verb assess, impose

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

I goes right to the 'phone and calls up Pinckney at the club.

I calls up Crosby, makes the date, and we meets on the corner at twelve-thirty.

That sect that calls up ghosts and goblins by means of the legs of a table!

So I calls up an old friend of mine and has a little confab.

The mention of “them that sell” calls up all the scene of the preceding day.

I did not see, that his nature shrinks from the thing it calls up.

It calls up in one's mind the solitude and dreariness of a desert.

Then he calls up an engineer from our construction department.

I'll never cease piping, 'till it calls up a drop to wet my whistle.

It calls up none of the low and degrading passions of our nature.