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calling onphraseor calling uponpresent participle of call on to place reliance or trustShe's the one I call on when I need a friend. calculating, counting, depending, leaning, reckoning, relying committing, confiding, entrusting(also intrusting), trusting banking on, figuring on, looking to, standing on distrusting, mistrusting, questioning, suspecting to make a request ofShe called on me for a ride to the airport. asking, hitting (up), requesting, soliciting appealing (to), begging, beseeching, conjuring, entreating, imploring, importuning, inviting, invoking, petitioning, pleading (to), praying, supplicatingdemanding, enjoining, exacting, pressing, requiring coercing, compelling, constraining, forcing, obliging, requiring to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent mannerThey called on a specialist after other avenues had failed. appealing (to), begging, beseeching, besieging, conjuring, entreating, impetrating, imploring, importuning, petitioning, pleading (to), praying, soliciting, supplicating bludging(chiefly Australian & New Zealand), cadging, mooching, spongingasking, desiring, invoking, requesting, suingclaiming, coercing, commanding, compelling, demanding, forcing, insisting, requiring hinting, implying, intimating, suggestingappeasing, conciliating, gratifying, mollifying, obliging, pacifying, placating, pleasing, satisfyingcomforting, consoling, contenting, quieting |