1. (verb)
ring, peal
- sound loudly and sonorously Synonyms: telephone, band, border, environ, peal, echo, phone, reverberate, knell, skirt, resound, call up, surround, call, ring
2. (verb)
resound, echo, ring, reverberate
- ring or echo with sound Synonyms: recall, knell, rebound, phone, surround, reflect, bound, recoil, make noise, telephone, skirt, resile, spring, resound, ricochet, border, peal, echo, call, call up, band, ring, take a hop, noise, repeat, reverberate, bounce, environ
3. (verb)
ring, knell
- make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification Synonyms: telephone, band, border, environ, peal, echo, phone, reverberate, knell, skirt, resound, call up, surround, call, ring
4. (verb)
call, telephone, call up, phone, ring
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone Synonyms: predict, forebode, band, prognosticate, bring forward, promise, phone, yell, call off, recollect, surround, shout out, retrieve, foretell, cry, peal, call in, scream, environ, holler, rally, mobilize, call up, echo, hollo, call, think, send for, knell, anticipate, border, address, visit, resound, shout, recall, mobilise, reverberate, name, call back, squall, bid, ring, remember, telephone, skirt
5. (verb)
surround, environ, ring, skirt, border
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle Synonyms: adjoin, elude, circumvent, evade, band, butt against, frame, butt, butt on, echo, sidestep, surround, phone, peal, abut, environ, besiege, edge, wall, call up, parry, fence in, duck, call, knell, fence, hedge, border, resound, put off, reverberate, smother, bound, beleaguer, hem in, frame in, march, ring, fudge, palisade, telephone, dodge, skirt
6. (verb)
ring, band
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify Synonyms: telephone, band, border, environ, peal, echo, phone, reverberate, knell, skirt, resound, call up, surround, call, ring