Call Up
How to Conjugate Call Up
- Infinitive: Call Up
- Present Tense: Call Up/ Calls Up
- -ing Form: Calling Up
- Past Tense: Called Up
- Past Participle: Called Up
Call Up is a separable and non-separable phrasal verb and has 2 definitions.
Definitions of Call Up:
1. To be chosen to take part in a military mission.
Examples: Back in the day, men were randomly called up and obligated to go fight in a war.
When you join the military, you could get called up to go overseas for a couple of years.
2. To telephone someone.
Examples: I miss being able to call up my grandma and listen to her funny stories.
I want to talk to someone, but there is no one to call up.
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