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All call on synonyms

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verb call on

  • compel β€” If a situation, a rule, or a person compels you to do something, they force you to do it.
  • charge β€” If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
  • call β€” a demand for redeemable bonds or shares to be presented for repayment
  • restrain β€” to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
  • cite β€” If you cite something, you quote it or mention it, especially as an example or proof of what you are saying.
  • oblige β€” to require or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
  • bid β€” A bid for something or a bid to do something is an attempt to obtain it or do it.
  • warn β€” to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
  • interdict β€” Civil Law. any prohibitory act or decree of a court or an administrative officer.
  • adjure β€” to command, often by exacting an oath; charge
  • inhibit β€” to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
  • task β€” a definite piece of work assigned to, falling to, or expected of a person; duty.
  • bar β€” A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
  • impose β€” to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
  • ordain β€” to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
  • summon β€” to call upon to do something specified.
  • requisition β€” the act of requiring or demanding.
  • subpoena β€” the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
  • ban β€” To ban something means to state officially that it must not be done, shown, or used.
  • order β€” an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
  • ordinate β€” Mathematics. (in plane Cartesian coordinates) the y-coordinate of a point: its distance from the x-axis measured parallel to the y-axis.
  • repudiate β€” to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • disbelieve β€” to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
  • curb β€” If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
  • negate β€” to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
  • disown β€” to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
  • forgo β€” to abstain or refrain from; do without.
  • abjure β€” If you abjure something such as a belief or way of life, you state publicly that you will give it up or that you reject it.
  • negative β€” expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
  • discredit β€” to injure the credit or reputation of; defame: an effort to discredit honest politicians.
  • doubt β€” to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
  • disprove β€” to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
  • forsake β€” to quit or leave entirely; abandon; desert: She has forsaken her country for an island in the South Pacific.
  • contravene β€” To contravene a law or rule means to do something that is forbidden by the law or rule.
  • veto β€” the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
  • sacrifice β€” the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
  • disallow β€” to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
  • nullify β€” to render or declare legally void or inoperative: to nullify a contract.
  • begrudge β€” If you do not begrudge someone something, you do not feel angry, upset, or jealous that they have got it.
  • taboo β€” proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable: Taboo language is usually bleeped on TV. Synonyms: prohibited, banned, forbidden, proscribed. Antonyms: allowed, permitted, permissible; sanctioned.
  • abnegate β€” to deny to oneself; renounce (privileges, pleasure, etc)
  • gainsay β€” to deny, dispute, or contradict.
  • disclaim β€” to deny or repudiate interest in or connection with; disavow; disown: disclaiming all participation.
  • spurn β€” to reject with disdain; scorn.
  • disavow β€” to disclaim knowledge of, connection with, or responsibility for; disown; repudiate: He disavowed the remark that had been attributed to him.
  • controvert β€” to deny, refute, or oppose (some argument or opinion)
  • discard β€” to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
  • recant β€” to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
  • rebut β€” to refute by evidence or argument.
  • reside β€” to apply new siding, as to a house.
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