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FALL UPON
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Find unexpectedly
Example:
The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake
Synonyms:
attain; chance on; chance upon; come across; come upon; discover; fall upon; happen upon; light upon; strike
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "fall upon" is one way to...):
find; regain (come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
When I heard these words, a light began to fall upon the figure I had seen following them, some hours ago.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But he would not, and said that it would be a very hazardous thing; for if the least ray of the torch-light should fall upon him his enchantment would become still worse, for he should be changed into a dove, and be forced to wander about the world for seven long years.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Again Ivan spoke to Karduk, and Karduk said: Know, strange brother, if thy talk be not straight, and if thy people block the way and fall upon Ivan and his men, that thou shalt die, and at once.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I cannot, even now, distinctly pledge myself to fall upon your family's neck; but the member of your family, who is now in attendance, shall have no genial warmth frozen by me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
As I went up to my airy old room, the grave shadow of the staircase seemed to fall upon my doubts and fears, and to make the past more indistinct.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
What an evening, when Mrs. Crupp, coming in to take away the broth-basin, produced one kidney on a cheese-plate as the entire remains of yesterday's feast, and I was really inclined to fall upon her nankeen breast and say, in heartfelt penitence, Oh, Mrs. Crupp, Mrs. Crupp, never mind the broken meats!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
