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View synonyms for summoned

summoned

[ suhm-uhnd ]

adjective

  1. having been called on, called forward, or ordered to come, especially for a specific purpose or to a specific place, such as a court of law:

    The officers are responsible for presenting the summoned person immediately to a judge.

    The summoned experts congratulated one another on the prosperity and soundness of the business—just one month before the crisis erupted.

  2. having been called forth by magic, as from a supernatural or demoniac realm:

    This scrap of parchment suggests that the queen spider is a summoned creature who has been trapped in the cave by a magical symbol painted on the wall.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of summon.

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  • un·sum·moned adjective

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Example Sentences

His memories of his life summon ours, without warning or apology.

Days later, representatives from China’s central bank and financial regulatory agencies summoned Ma, Ant’s executive chairman Eric Jing and chief executive Simon Hu to Beijing for a rare, unscheduled meeting.

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A later video shows her in the garage of her home, after her husband has summoned the police.

His show neither attracted nor allowed histrionics, no galloping, shrieking contestants such as those summoned to “Come on down!”

Wiedmaier says the music summons the pre-covid days, and he’s right.

He has been summoned from the command post the NYPD has maintained for a decade just up the street.

So outraged he swung into action and summoned the former Baltimore Ravens running back to the NFL Vatican on Park Avenue.

The father gave her a turkey and continued on, having summoned the very best in himself after the worst hurt a father can suffer.

Shostakovich was briefly in Moscow, and he was summoned to the theater.

ISIS had summoned him from the Talesh area in the Guilan province north of Tehran, to perform the unholy duty.

He who has attained it grows giddy, and the fiercest winds are summoned to blow him from his eminence.

With unbreathing silence, and a heart into which all that was man within him was summoned, he followed his conductor.

That lasted almost two months, and he summoned witnesses, and many of them, who told all that they knew about me.

He had me summoned by edicts and proclaimed through the public streets, an action that has scandalized this community.

Accordingly one Priest was immediately summoned from Aquitaine, and another was chosen in France.

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