Synonym: call, conjure, send for, subpoena. Similar words: summons, summit, summer, flummox, summary, midsummer, summation, consummate. Meaning: ['sʌmən] 
v. 1. call in an official matter, such as to attend court 2. ask to come 3. gather or bring together 4. make ready for action or use.
v. 1. call in an official matter, such as to attend court 2. ask to come 3. gather or bring together 4. make ready for action or use. 
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31. He died 30 minutes later, just as the confusion had subsided enough to summon an emergency medical crew.
32. I used to be able to summon a carp from the pond.
33. What if we could summon up the willingness and wisdom to suspend our disbelief?
34. Poshekhonov could summon a short clear smile from Holly, a smile that was chained and brief.
35. Will they summon up the energy to transfer to the Isas offered by smile or the Nationwide?
36. Time is required, often to summon the courage necessary to talk about their real problems and difficulties.
37. By August the government was trying to pacify protest by undertaking to summon an elected consultative assembly.
38. There is still a way out of this economic mess, if Mr Gorbachev can summon up the courage to take it.
39. But this is Washington, a town where the display of a statue can summon robust political forces on both sides.
40. He sought out - he did not summon - those he wished to consult, and if persuaded would act at once.
41. She would in a moment, when she could summon up the energy.
42. The courier had orders for them to repair at once to Edinburgh, where the Regent was to summon an urgent Council.
43. However, it might be possible for me to detect and summon the ship if I was taken above the atmosphere.
44. He had to summon all his willpower to pass under a bridge because he would experience a crushing pressure on the skull.
45. To this day beards summon up the most unpleasant associations.
46. When things are difficult we summon our will power[sentencedict.com/summon.html], and override the difficulties.
47. Yet not only does it summon up that tradition, it physically presents it.
48. A telephone call is all it takes to summon one of our team of experts to your doorstep.
49. But he was most sparing with the anger on celluloid: would rather fake it than summon it up.
50. But the decision was taken that he should carry on and try to summon one final burst of energy.
51. This he achieved, securing the right for the curia to receive appeals[sentencedict.com], summon synods and approve bishops.
52. None the less the king did summon the officers of the Exchequer to join him in Oxford.
53. At the beginning of each new paragraph she must summon her strength to overcome enormous resistances.
54. Tom put two and two together and set off in search of the youths, asking the Security Guard to summon the Police.
55. Era of knowledge economy summon elementary education innovation.
56. I couldn't summon up his name at the moment.
57. The store keeper received a summon from the court.
58. She couldn't summon up interest in it.
59. He pedaled off to summon a mason.
60. A man brags that he can summon the dead.
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