call down

How to sign: censure severely or angrily
"The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup";

Similiar / Same: rebuke, have words, chew up, chew out, bawl out, berate, chide, scold, dress down, reproof, call on the carpet, reprimand, lecture, lambaste, lambast, remonstrate, trounce, jaw, rag

Categories: criticise, criticize, knock, pick apart

Within this category: chastise, tell off

call down

How to sign: evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic
"raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain";

Similiar / Same: conjure, conjure up, invoke, bring up, call forth, arouse, put forward, evoke, stir, raise

Categories: create, make

Within this category: bless, curse