Home

Phrasal verbs starting with "call"

17 phrasal verbs use this verb

call ahead
A2

To phone a place or person before you arrive or before something happens, to give warning or make arrangements.

call around
A2

To make a series of phone calls to different people or places, usually to gather information or find something.

call away
B1

To require or summon someone to leave what they are doing and go to another place or task.

call back
A2

To phone someone again, especially in return for a call they made to you, or to ask someone to return to a place.

call down
C1

To invoke or pray for something to descend upon someone, or to reprimand someone severely.

call for
B1

To publicly demand something, to require or make necessary, or to collect someone from a place.

call forth
C1

To evoke, produce, or summon a quality, emotion, or response.

call in
B1

To phone a workplace, radio station, or organisation; to summon someone for help; or to visit briefly.

call off
B1

To cancel a planned event, activity, or course of action.

call on
B1

To ask or invite someone to do something, or to pay a visit to someone.

call out
B1

To shout something; to publicly challenge or criticise someone; or to summon someone to a scene.

call over
B1

To attract someone's attention and ask them to come to where you are.

call round
B1

British English: to visit someone at their home, usually briefly; or to phone a number of people in turn.

call to
B2

To shout or speak loudly toward someone in order to attract their attention or appeal to them.

call together
B2

To summon or assemble a group of people for a meeting or joint purpose.

call up
B1

To telephone someone, to conscript someone for military service, or to retrieve stored data or memories.

call upon
B2

To formally ask or request someone to do something, or to appeal to something for support.