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fall upon (third-person singular simple present falls upon, present participle falling upon, simple past fell upon, past participle fallen upon)

  1. To experience; to suffer.
    With the rise of the Internet, some media fell upon hard times.
  2. To occur at some particular point in time.
  3. To set upon; to attack suddenly; to invade.
    • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], lines 1-3:
      If the Duke, with the other dukes, come not to composition with the king of Hungary, why then all the dukes fall upon the king.

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