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Call back

verb

Cause to be returned. Synonyms: call in, recall, withdraw. "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"

Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection. Synonyms: call up, recall, recollect, remember, retrieve, think. "I can't think what her last name was" , "Can you remember her phone number?" , "Do you remember that he once loved you?" , "Call up memories"

Return or repeat a telephone call. "She left a message but the contractor never called back"

Summon to return. Synonym: recall. "The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession"

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"Call back" Quotes from Famous Books

... are reminiscences more or less of a purely musical nature or connected only in a general way with scenes or incidents of the drama. They call back indistinctly scenes of bygone times, and will be spoken of as ...

— Wagner's Tristan und Isolde • George Ainslie Hight

... tenanted by the servants—there were none within call—I had no means of summoning them to my aid without leaving the room for many minutes—and this I could not venture to do. I therefore struggled alone in my endeavors to call back the spirit ill hovering. In a short period it was certain, however, that a relapse had taken place; the color disappeared from both eyelid and cheek, leaving a wanness even more than that of marble; the lips became doubly shrivelled and pinched up ...

— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 3 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

... arms, and drew her toward him. She sank down, and laid her head by his cold cheek. Her hot breath wafted him a new life-current, and seemed to call back his soul from ...

— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach

... When Ruth remembered to call back, "Where's Ri-Ri?" to her mother, Mrs. Blair only glanced over her shoulder and answered, "She's coming," with no ...

— The Innocent Adventuress • Mary Hastings Bradley

... dismounting, dragged her unconscious comrade to the bank of the creek, and, throwing water in his face, quickly restored him to his senses; but, before he could handle his gun, the Indians had come within a hundred paces, whooping fiercely to call back their companions, who just before abandoned the pursuit. They were luckily only armed with bows and arrows, and, circling about the fearless pair, they launched arrow after arrow, though without doing ...

— Woman on the American Frontier • William Worthington Fowler

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