verb
- 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"
- synonyms: raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
- 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"
- synonyms: call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast
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