Come-upon synonyms

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discover (related)
To be the first to find out, see, or know about
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find (related)
To come upon, often by accident; meet with:
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enter upon
take possession of
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encounter
To meet unexpectedly; come upon
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locate
To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)
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meet (related)
To come together:
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luck into
take possession of
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fall-upon
To fall on; to experience; to suffer.
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strike
To manufacture, as by stamping.
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chance-upon
(Idiomatic) to find by chance
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come across
(Idiomatic) To give an appearance or impression; to project a certain image.
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chance on
find unexpectedly
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happen upon
find unexpectedly
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attain
To gain through effort; accomplish; achieve
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happen on
To find by chance,
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Come-upon Sentence Examples

  • Though the inhabitants bad been arned by the earlier convulsions of the mountain, so swiftly d destruction come upon them that 18,ooo are said to have St their lives.

  • This story is about two children who walked through a dangerous forest and come upon a house made of gingerbread.

  • The native tombrobbers, well-sinkers, dredgers and the like, however, come upon valuable objects from time to time, which find their way into private collections.

  • While the mine workings are small the overlying rocks support themselves of and the full pressure does not come upon the mine Caving p i llars.

  • Arnod (an official of the duchy of Aosta) in 1689 to " re-open " the Col du Geant may be counted as made by a non-native, we do not come upon another case of the kind till the last quarter of the 18th century.

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