summons
/ˈsʌ.mənz/ verb C2- To serve someone with a summons.
He/she/it summonses · Past summonsed · Past participle summonsed · -ing form summonsing
Verb forms
- Base form
- summons
- He/she/it
- summonses
- Past
- summonsed
- Past participle
- summonsed
- -ing form
- summonsing
From the library
He was interrupted by a summons to dinner; and the girls smiled on each other.
He whistled and sounded his horn in vain; the straggler paid no attention to the summons.
“Death” immediately appeared in answer to his summons and asked for what reason he had called him.
“To my surprise, it was a woman who answered the summons, a large, coarse-faced, elderly woman, in an apron.
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