SUMMONED Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

summoned

verb

Definition of summoned next

past tense of summon

as in called

to demand or request the presence or service of without explanation, the managing editor summoned me to his office

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as in gathered

to call into being through the use of one's inner resources or powers managed to summon a bright smile despite the gloomy day

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as in mustered

to bring together in assembly by or as if by command summoned a special session of parliament

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Recent Examples of summoned Five others escaped the cave’s narrow tunnels after rescue efforts by international experts summoned to the perilous cave in central Laos. —

Kocha Olarn, CNN Money, 1 June 2026 Hernandez summoned national media hurricanes to two high school track seasons and a volleyball season in the span of one year. —

Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026 Nonetheless, a Digikala executive was briefly jailed, and others were summoned for respectful, but still threatening, meetings with the police. —

Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026 Harlan County War conflicts occasionally became so intense the Kentucky National Guard was summoned to restore order. —

Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 1 June 2026 In the spring of 2021, a 25-year-old man was summoned to help a friend in a confrontation at a low-income housing development in Middletown, Connecticut. —

Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 1 June 2026 The San Francisco Giants summoned the 24-year-old outfielder from the Richmond Flying Squirrels before last night’s Double-A Eastern League game in Akron against the RubberDucks. —

Chuck Murr, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026 The Swiss squad did a lap of honor and some players completed post-game interviews before the broadcast noted the teams had been summoned by Norwegian referee Rohit Saggi and told to prepare to go back on the field and complete the 90 minutes. —

ABC News, 31 May 2026 And, in September 2016, then-Phillies manager Pete Mackanin used Tommy Joseph to pinch-hit in the sixth inning when the opponent summoned a lefty reliever to face Ryan Howard. —

Matt Gelb, New York Times, 31 May 2026

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The rapidly ballooning market of the 1980s accommodated both kinds of art—art that might have been called critical, as well as art that might have been termed complicit, Pictures artists and neo-expressionists alike.

— Katy Siegel, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Food and drink Four Seasons has two properties in Istanbul—this, and its sister set on the stretch of the shore lined with former palace-cum-hotels that could be called the Posh-phorus.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026