verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gather/muster/summon your strength (= get enough strength to do something )
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He sat for a couple of minutes, gathering his strength.
summon (up)/muster your courage (= make yourself feel brave )
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Summoning all her courage, she got up to see what the noise was.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
back
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They were soon summoned back to London.
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Mungo closed his eyes, summoning back the image he had tried to capture in the barrow.
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Will they have to be summoned back ?
up
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Despite her threat she doubted if she could summon up enough voice to scream.
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What if we could summon up the willingness and wisdom to suspend our disbelief?
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The keen blustery morning summoned up exactly the braced mood she sought to capture.
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It seems to me a healthy slogan; and it summons up a cheerful and invigorating mood.
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Surely this night the unexpected would happen, surely she had summoned up the unexpected.
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New challenges summon up fresh resources, or expose areas in which resources are lacking.
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Mayall plays Fred, the obnoxious character summoned up by a mixed up young woman with hilarious and chaotic consequences.
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Yet not only does it summon up that tradition, it physically presents it.
■ NOUN
assembly
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By August the government was trying to pacify protest by undertaking to summon an elected consultative assembly .
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At the same time, Louis summoned a series of assemblies involving both bishops and lay nobles.
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By February he felt compelled to commit himself to summoning a Consultative Assembly .
conference
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They get summoned into the conference room.
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Gaidar, although summoned by the conference participants, did not attend.
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The first time the Guardian used him in a libel action we were summoned to a conference in his London chambers.
council
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In 511 Clovis summoned a council of bishops to Orléans, largely to deal with ecclesiastical matters in newly conquered Aquitaine.
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The courier had orders for them to repair at once to Edinburgh, where the Regent was to summon an urgent Council .
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He became aware that men were scheming against him and therefore summoned a council of gods.
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Theodosius, the Eastern emperor, summoned a Council to meet at Ephesus.
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He called together his generals and summoned a Council of War at the Shrine of Asuryan.
courage
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There is still a way out of this economic mess, if Mr Gorbachev can summon up the courage to take it.
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In 1941, Roosevelt conceded failure and Congress summoned the courage to codify the date in law.
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Time is required, often to summon the courage necessary to talk about their real problems and difficulties.
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When at last he lay sleeping quietly, she summoned all her courage and lit the lamp.
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University students summoned the courage to demonstrate for multi-party changes soon after the Lenten letter was read.
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I need to summon my courage for its wild, exhilarating, heart-stopping ride.
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He summoned his courage and said so to the grim-faced man before he left the sick room.
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Feeling small and insignificant, Chesarynth summoned up the courage to move.
energy
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Will they summon up the energy to transfer to the Isas offered by smile or the Nationwide?
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She would in a moment, when she could summon up the energy .
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Keep him from chasing younger birds - if he could've summoned up the energy .
meeting
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During the late afternoon I received another call summoning a further Cabinet meeting at 7.30 p.m.
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He had been summoned to this meeting at short notice.
memory
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Well, I have now marshalled my thoughts, summoning memories from that summer over seventy years ago.
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He summoned up childhood memories and a long love for a part of his musical heritage in a piece called Blues Suite.
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For the murderer it summoned up memories of shared moments.
office
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His reaction to them was explosive, and on Monday morning Verity Lambert was hastily summoned to his office .
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Undecided House members have been summoned to the Oval Office for coveted one-on-one chats with the chief executive.
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Even after he had been summoned to the Holy Office in April 1633, Galileo could still arouse sympathy in high places.
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Two weeks later she was summoned to his office .
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She had come north, summoned by a War Office telegram to see me that first time.
parliament
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Peers spiritual Until the fourteenth century, all clergy were summoned to Parliament .
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The appointment of peers temporal Nowadays, one thinks that if one is a peer, one is summoned to Parliament .
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During this period he contracted to serve Edward for life and from 1317 he was summoned to Parliament .
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But it was not the Crown's invariable motive for summoning a Parliament .
police
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Miss Thomas was laid out on a pavement and the police were summoned from a nearby police station.
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Tom put two and two together and set off in search of the youths, asking the Security Guard to summon the Police .
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After the catastrophe, they would hardly find it as easy to summon police as they had done before.
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Next day the rector of the Sorbonne summoned police to a student protest against the closure of Nanterre.
smile
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Poshekhonov could summon a short clear smile from Holly, a smile that was chained and brief.
strength
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At the beginning of each new paragraph she must summon her strength to overcome enormous resistances.
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She summons extraordinary strength and responds, nodding her head vigorously, agreeing.
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Sunday's different, energy levels are low and you can't summon the strength or stamina to do anything.
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Have you summoned the ancient golden strength , to bind me to you once and for all time?
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Ruth summoned some inner strength she thought she had exhausted.
■ VERB
try
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But the decision was taken that he should carry on and try to summon one final burst of energy.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
serve a summons/writ etc
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In some ways it's like serving a writ, only in this circumstance it's entirely beneficial to the recipient.
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Voice over Jaguar has already served a writ on one customer who withdrew his order.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I've been summoned to appear at Guildford Magistrates Court on June 1st.
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I finally summoned the courage to ask my father to lend me the car.
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President Clinton summoned his top White House aides to discuss the crisis.
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Russo saw the fight and summoned the police.
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The Colonel had summoned him to Cancun for the meeting at the Rena Victoria Hotel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the same time all £50 landowners were summoned to serve without pay.
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He had been summoned to appear before an Officer Selection Board, having put his name forward shortly after joining the Regiment.
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In a few minutes a servant knocked and summoned Gandhi.
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Jack Kennedy summoning Robert Frost to deliver an inauguration poem and confer a bardic benediction on the new administration.
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Mrs Field summoned the vet immediately, who said it was in a hopeless condition and should be put down at once.
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She only realised that the meal had ended when Piers summoned across for the bill.
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We summon them down from the highest tree branches.