1. [informal] Censure severely or angrily
   "The deputy called down the Prime Minister";
   - call on the carpet [US, informal], take to task, rebuke, rag [informal], trounce, lecture, reprimand, jaw [informal], dress down [informal], scold, chide, berate, bawl out [informal], chew out [N. Amer, informal], chew up [N. Amer, informal], have words, lambaste, lambast, ream [N. Amer, informal], wig [Brit, informal], carpet [Brit, informal]
    
2. Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
   "He called down curses upon his enemies would do something as despicable as murder=murder is a despicable crime";
   - raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, arouse, bring up, call forth
    
3. Request to come down from above
   "She called down to her children from upstairs"

Derived forms: calls down, called down, calling down

Type of: call up, criticise [Brit], criticize, damn [informal], knock [informal], pick apart, summon