Main entry: call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, rag, rebuke, scold, dress down, take to task, trounce, have words, lambast, lambaste, lecture, jaw, berate, bawl out
Definition: censure severely or angrily
Usage: 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
Main entry: bring up, call down, call forth, invoke, conjure, conjure up, arouse, put forward, raise, evoke, stir
Definition: summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
Usage: raise the specter of unemployment; he conjured wild birds in the air; call down the spirits from the mountain