Call on and Turn

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Call on verb - Have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to.

Usage example: She called on her Representative to help her

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Turn is a synonym for call on. In some cases you can use "Turn" instead a verb "Call on".

Turn verb - Have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to.

Usage example: She turned to her relatives for help

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Call on is a synonym for turn. Sometimes you can use "Call on" instead a verb "Turn".

Nearby Words: turned, turning

He could call on a Fallen Angel or some evil Necromacy ritual, but those would turn him into a truly evil monster.

Source: Even Evil Has Standards / Literature
Eggplant Wizard (whose reason for existing in Kid Icarus was to turn you into an eggplant) only ever turns someone into an eggplant once, and he has to call on a genie to do it.

Source: Western Animation / Captain N: The Game Master
At the start of "The Time of the Doctor", the Doctor takes a call on the TARDIS telephone from Clara, who urgently needs him to turn up for Christmas dinner and pretend to be her boyfriend.

Source: Kinda Busy Here

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