Set-upon synonyms

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assail
To attack violently, as with blows or military force; assault.
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fall-upon
To fall on; to experience; to suffer.
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spring at
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attack (related)
To start work on with purpose and vigor:
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beset
To beset is to harass or have trouble on an ongoing basis from multiple sources or from all sides.
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Set-upon Sentence Examples

  • For this a curse was pronounced upon him, and he was condemned to be a "fugitive and a wanderer" on the earth, a mark being set upon him "lest any finding him should kill him."

  • The mark set upon Cain is usually regarded as some tribal mark or sign analogous to the cattle marks of Bedouin and the related usages in Europe.

  • But if a majority of diviners decide against the accusers, the latter are set upon a wagon-load of brushwood and burned to death.

  • He then set upon the several gates in succession, and was repulsed at all.

  • Here he had been rescued and brought up by " Akki the husbandman"; but the day arrived at length when his true origin became known, the crown of Babylonia was set upon his head and he entered upon a career of foreign conquest.

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