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Noun [English]

IPA: /wɪθ.ˈkɔːl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /wɪθ.ˈkɔl/ [General-American] Forms: withcalls [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔːl Etymology: From Middle English withcallen (“to recall, call back; revoke”), equivalent to with- (“back, away”) + call. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|withcallen|t=to recall, call back; revoke}} Middle English withcallen (“to recall, call back; revoke”), {{pre|en|with|call|t1=back, away}} with- (“back, away”) + call Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} withcall (countable and uncountable, plural withcalls)
  1. (rare) Recall. Tags: countable, rare, uncountable
    Sense id: en-withcall-en-noun-k33toXQ6 Categories (other): English terms prefixed with with- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with with-: 16 23 19 16 11 15

Verb [English]

IPA: /wɪθ.ˈkɔːl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /wɪθ.ˈkɔl/ [General-American] Forms: withcalls [present, singular, third-person], withcalling [participle, present], withcalled [participle, past], withcalled [past]
Rhymes: -ɔːl Etymology: From Middle English withcallen (“to recall, call back; revoke”), equivalent to with- (“back, away”) + call. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|withcallen|t=to recall, call back; revoke}} Middle English withcallen (“to recall, call back; revoke”), {{pre|en|with|call|t1=back, away}} with- (“back, away”) + call Head templates: {{en-verb}} withcall (third-person singular simple present withcalls, present participle withcalling, simple past and past participle withcalled)
  1. (transitive, rare) To call back, recall. Tags: rare, transitive
    Sense id: en-withcall-en-verb-ZltNk8s6 Categories (other): English terms prefixed with with- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with with-: 16 23 19 16 11 15
  2. (transitive, rare) To bring back, restore. Tags: rare, transitive
    Sense id: en-withcall-en-verb-J50RrXX9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with with-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 17 32 14 14 11 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with with-: 16 23 19 16 11 15 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 18 36 12 10 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 17 42 10 7 11
  3. (transitive, rare) To call or draw away (from); divert. Tags: rare, transitive
    Sense id: en-withcall-en-verb-~yp5IPEx Categories (other): English terms prefixed with with- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with with-: 16 23 19 16 11 15
  4. (transitive, rare) To withdraw or retract, especially one's words; recant; unsay. Tags: rare, transitive
    Sense id: en-withcall-en-verb-GT6cNhR~ Categories (other): English terms prefixed with with- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with with-: 16 23 19 16 11 15
  5. (transitive, rare) To recall or revoke; call off; rescind; cancel. Tags: rare, transitive
    Sense id: en-withcall-en-verb-pQdZWxSk Categories (other): English terms prefixed with with- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with with-: 16 23 19 16 11 15
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: recant, take back Derived forms: withcalling [noun]

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Besides, seeing he is the author of secret contemplation, and estranged from all public affairs, and the highest of all the planets, he doth, as he withcalls his mind from outward business, so also make it ascend higher, and bestows upon men the knowledge and presages of future things.",
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          "ref": "1678, John Reresby (sir, 2nd bart.), James Joel Cartwright, The memoirs of sir John Reresby, published 1875:",
          "text": "This long debate ended in voting an address to be made to the King, to desire his Majesty before that they proceeded to give any more money, he would please to declare war against France, and withcall his ambassador from the French Court.",
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          "ref": "1849, The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, volume 21, page 29:",
          "text": "\"[…] For to withcall us on this ground, and to send others who would pursue an opposite course, would be manifestly preposterous and vain.",
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          "ref": "1865, History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps",
          "text": "By order of the President, Bayard's brigade was withcalled, and followed by three divisions, commanded by Generals Shields, King, and Ord, was sent with all possible haste to intercept Jackson's retreat up the valley."
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          "ref": "1896, Hugh Stowell Scott, Flotsam: the study of a life:",
          "text": "Instead the troops were withcalled, and began once more the weary work of besieging a fortified city […]",
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          "ref": "1895-1897, Proceedings, page 16:",
          "text": "Two of the Grand Jurisdictions have discontinued the use of this system and have withcalled their Grand Representatives.",
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          "ref": "1909, The Bricklayer, Mason and Plasterer, volumes 12-13, page 58:",
          "text": "Our special representatives in the field remain as reported last month, with the exception that Organizer Peace has been withcalled.",
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          "ref": "1935, Neil M. Gunn, Butcher's Broom:",
          "text": "The second dog pounced, and the two snarled and slashed, but not the woman now so much as each other, for they were mad with excitement and the sharp whistle withcalling them maddened them still more.",
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          "ref": "1935, Financial World, volume 64, page 112:",
          "text": "Great Britain may also have in mind the fiasco that occurred at the London conference when President Roosevelt suddenly withcalled the American delegates, and desires to avoid a repetition of the same thing.",
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          "ref": "1941, Louisiana Department of Conservation, Report, page 79:",
          "text": "Should be established with the idea of using \"free\" labor and not the unreliable \"agency\" labor. The latter is often withcalled when most needed.",
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          "ref": "1950, Diesel Power and Diesel Transportation, volume 28, page 82:",
          "text": "Meanwhile as the prime contractors prepare to withcall their squads of diesel equipment from the field, winding up one of the West's biggest earth-moving jobs, Project General Superintendent Earl Boswell says that the field maintenance shops, which have worked around-the-clock since February 1, 1949, have had a lot to do with getting equipment off the job some 150 days ahead of schedule.",
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        "(transitive, rare) To call back, recall."
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          "ref": "1833, Peter Walker, Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater, Biblical repertory:",
          "text": "Alas, that he should himself have fallen on that very enchanted ground, from which it was the business and the glory of his life to withcall his younger brethren!",
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          "ref": "1994, Matt Fitzgerald, Shame about the Title, page 61:",
          "text": "Could Mary,\nwomb of Jesus, be\nWithcalled from vast eternity,\nAnd brought, at last, again to breathe,\nAnd given vision to conceive […]",
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          "ref": "1716, Weekly remarks, and political reflections upon the most material news:",
          "text": "[…] intended to withcall him from his Studies, […]",
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          "ref": "1916, California Alumni Association, The California Alumni Fortnightly:",
          "text": "A policy which withcalls us from the great task we have in the Pacific is recreant to our duty as a great state, and to all that we owe to the civilization of the world.",
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        "(transitive, rare) To call or draw away (from); divert."
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          "ref": "1901, Prior, Forest Flk.:",
          "text": "He withcalls all he's swore.",
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          "ref": "1964, The Journal, volume 35, Issue 2, Oklahoma Bar Association, page 1965:",
          "text": "[…] I got this report this morning but since he continued to work I didn't feel or figure the significance of it amounted to very much so I didn't see any reason to withcall my report and rewrite it.",
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          "ref": "c. 1867, John Bigelow, Retrospections of an active life, published 1913:",
          "text": "His ignorance of law and indifference as to essential principles underlying law — displayed in his appointment of Stewart and his purpose of withcalling Johnson's pardons, were about all that has troubled me, […]",
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          "ref": "1905, The Advance, volume 50, page 425:",
          "text": "At the earnest solicitation of his church, Mr. Grupe has withcalled his resignation and will remain in the church as pastor.",
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          "ref": "1906, originally 1905, Annual Report of the Railroad and Warehouse:",
          "text": "[…] they believe it to be their duty in this instance to withcall the request to have train No. 3 stop at Mill Spring, Missouri.",
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          "ref": "1919, The Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators, volume 18, page 94:",
          "text": "There is a petition in circulation with over 1,000 signatures to withcall the said mayor.",
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          "ref": "1922, George Thornton Fleming, History of Pittsburgh and environs:",
          "text": "When war was declared with Germany in April of that year the jubilee was withcalled.",
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          "ref": "1928, Southwest Builder and Contractor, volume 71, page 50:",
          "text": "There are at present three small reservoirs on this site. This call for bids was previously announced as for May 7, but was withcalled by the city due to certain changes in the plans.",
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          "ref": "1993, Bruce McKern, Transnational Corporations and the Exploitation of Natural Resources:",
          "text": "He provoked a crisis in the international industry in 1956 by withcalling options held by the established producers and auctioning off large concessions to new companies more willing than the old ones to expand output.",
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          "ref": "1678, John Reresby (sir, 2nd bart.), James Joel Cartwright, The memoirs of sir John Reresby, published 1875:",
          "text": "This long debate ended in voting an address to be made to the King, to desire his Majesty before that they proceeded to give any more money, he would please to declare war against France, and withcall his ambassador from the French Court.",
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          "ref": "1849, The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, volume 21, page 29:",
          "text": "\"[…] For to withcall us on this ground, and to send others who would pursue an opposite course, would be manifestly preposterous and vain.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1865, History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps",
          "text": "By order of the President, Bayard's brigade was withcalled, and followed by three divisions, commanded by Generals Shields, King, and Ord, was sent with all possible haste to intercept Jackson's retreat up the valley."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
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              24,
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          "ref": "1896, Hugh Stowell Scott, Flotsam: the study of a life:",
          "text": "Instead the troops were withcalled, and began once more the weary work of besieging a fortified city […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
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              81,
              91
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1895-1897, Proceedings, page 16:",
          "text": "Two of the Grand Jurisdictions have discontinued the use of this system and have withcalled their Grand Representatives.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              121,
              131
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1909, The Bricklayer, Mason and Plasterer, volumes 12-13, page 58:",
          "text": "Our special representatives in the field remain as reported last month, with the exception that Organizer Peace has been withcalled.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              158,
              169
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1935, Neil M. Gunn, Butcher's Broom:",
          "text": "The second dog pounced, and the two snarled and slashed, but not the woman now so much as each other, for they were mad with excitement and the sharp whistle withcalling them maddened them still more.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
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              120,
              130
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          ],
          "ref": "1935, Financial World, volume 64, page 112:",
          "text": "Great Britain may also have in mind the fiasco that occurred at the London conference when President Roosevelt suddenly withcalled the American delegates, and desires to avoid a repetition of the same thing.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
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            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1941, Louisiana Department of Conservation, Report, page 79:",
          "text": "Should be established with the idea of using \"free\" labor and not the unreliable \"agency\" labor. The latter is often withcalled when most needed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
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              46,
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          ],
          "ref": "1950, Diesel Power and Diesel Transportation, volume 28, page 82:",
          "text": "Meanwhile as the prime contractors prepare to withcall their squads of diesel equipment from the field, winding up one of the West's biggest earth-moving jobs, Project General Superintendent Earl Boswell says that the field maintenance shops, which have worked around-the-clock since February 1, 1949, have had a lot to do with getting equipment off the job some 150 days ahead of schedule.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To call back, recall."
      ],
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, rare) To call back, recall."
      ],
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      ]
    },
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1833, Peter Walker, Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater, Biblical repertory:",
          "text": "Alas, that he should himself have fallen on that very enchanted ground, from which it was the business and the glory of his life to withcall his younger brethren!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
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          "ref": "1994, Matt Fitzgerald, Shame about the Title, page 61:",
          "text": "Could Mary,\nwomb of Jesus, be\nWithcalled from vast eternity,\nAnd brought, at last, again to breathe,\nAnd given vision to conceive […]",
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      "glosses": [
        "To bring back, restore."
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        "(transitive, rare) To bring back, restore."
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          "ref": "1716, Weekly remarks, and political reflections upon the most material news:",
          "text": "[…] intended to withcall him from his Studies, […]",
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          "ref": "1916, California Alumni Association, The California Alumni Fortnightly:",
          "text": "A policy which withcalls us from the great task we have in the Pacific is recreant to our duty as a great state, and to all that we owe to the civilization of the world.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To call or draw away (from); divert."
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        "(transitive, rare) To call or draw away (from); divert."
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1901, Prior, Forest Flk.:",
          "text": "He withcalls all he's swore.",
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              165,
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          "ref": "1964, The Journal, volume 35, Issue 2, Oklahoma Bar Association, page 1965:",
          "text": "[…] I got this report this morning but since he continued to work I didn't feel or figure the significance of it amounted to very much so I didn't see any reason to withcall my report and rewrite it.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To withdraw or retract, especially one's words; recant; unsay."
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        "(transitive, rare) To withdraw or retract, especially one's words; recant; unsay."
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          "ref": "c. 1867, John Bigelow, Retrospections of an active life, published 1913:",
          "text": "His ignorance of law and indifference as to essential principles underlying law — displayed in his appointment of Stewart and his purpose of withcalling Johnson's pardons, were about all that has troubled me, […]",
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          "ref": "1905, The Advance, volume 50, page 425:",
          "text": "At the earnest solicitation of his church, Mr. Grupe has withcalled his resignation and will remain in the church as pastor.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1906, originally 1905, Annual Report of the Railroad and Warehouse:",
          "text": "[…] they believe it to be their duty in this instance to withcall the request to have train No. 3 stop at Mill Spring, Missouri.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1919, The Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators, volume 18, page 94:",
          "text": "There is a petition in circulation with over 1,000 signatures to withcall the said mayor.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1922, George Thornton Fleming, History of Pittsburgh and environs:",
          "text": "When war was declared with Germany in April of that year the jubilee was withcalled.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1928, Southwest Builder and Contractor, volume 71, page 50:",
          "text": "There are at present three small reservoirs on this site. This call for bids was previously announced as for May 7, but was withcalled by the city due to certain changes in the plans.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1993, Bruce McKern, Transnational Corporations and the Exploitation of Natural Resources:",
          "text": "He provoked a crisis in the international industry in 1956 by withcalling options held by the established producers and auctioning off large concessions to new companies more willing than the old ones to expand output.",
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        "To recall or revoke; call off; rescind; cancel."
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        "(transitive, rare) To recall or revoke; call off; rescind; cancel."
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      "word": "recant"
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      "word": "take back"
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