to summon

  • 51summon for questioning — order to come in for interrogation …

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  • 52summon — clipian, bannan …

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  • 53summon — v. a. 1. Bid, cite, call, invite, call for, send for, order to appear, notify to appear. 2. Give notice to, command to appear, convene, convoke. 3. (Mil.) Demand the surrender of …

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  • 54summon up — Raise, rouse, arouse, call up, excite, pluck up, call into action …

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  • 55summon — verb 1) the embassy summoned her Syn: send for, call for, request the presence of; ask, invite 2) they were summoned as witnesses Syn: serve with a summons, summons, subpoena, cite, serve with a citation 3) …

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  • 56summon — sum·mon …

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  • 57summon — verb 1) he was summoned to the Embassy Syn: send for, call for, request the presence of, ask, invite 2) they were summoned as witnesses Syn: summons, subpoena 3) he summoned the courage to move closer …

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  • 58summon — To serve a summons; to cite a defendant to appear in court to answer a suit which has been begun against him; to notify the defendant that an action has been instituted against him, and that he is required to answer to it at a time and place… …

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  • 59summon — see MONSTER …

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  • 60summons — summon, summons, call, cite, convoke, convene, muster mean to demand the presence of persons or, by extension, things. Summon implies the exercise of authority or of power; it usually suggests a mandate, an imperative order or bidding, or urgency …

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