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set upon
verb
- intr, preposition to attack
three thugs set upon him
Idioms and Phrases
see set on .Example Sentences
He told the BBC how he was set upon when his team tried to investigate votes being falsified by Georgian Dream officials.
Bristol Crown Court heard how the close friends were then set upon by four teenage boys, armed with "fearsome weapons", in a case of mistaken identity.
He now surpasses domestic level and plans to set upon a path towards world level.
He had travelled to Wolverhampton with friends on 13 November and was set upon in an unprovoked attack on Stowlawn playing fields in East Park.
Among those who arrived by boat was one asylum seeker from Egypt, who was inside the Royal Hotel in Hull when it was set upon by rioters.
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