transcription, транскрипция: [ sʌmən ]
( summons, summoning, summoned)
1.
If you summon someone, you order them to come to you. ( FORMAL )
Howe summoned a doctor and hurried over...
Suddenly we were summoned to the interview room...
He has been summoned to appear in court on charges of incitement to law-breaking.
VERB : V n , be V-ed prep / adv , be V-ed to-inf
2.
If you summon a quality, you make a great effort to have it. For example, if you summon the courage or strength to do something, you make a great effort to be brave or strong, so that you will be able to do it.
It took her a full month to summon the courage to tell her mother.
VERB : V n
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Summon up means the same as summon .
Painfully shy, he finally summoned up courage to ask her to a game...
PHRASAL VERB : V P n (not pron)