Set Upon

Definition: Set Upon

Set Upon

Verb

1. To assail or attack on all sides:"The lioness..beset by men and hounds." Pope.

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Synonym: Set Upon

Attack

Verb: attack, assault, assail; invade; set upon, fall upon; charge, impugn, break a lance with, enter the lists.

Desire

Eager, avid, keen; burning, fervent, ardent; agog; all agog; breathless; impatient; (impetuous); bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon, set upon; mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire.

Resolution

Earnest, serious; set upon, bent upon, intent upon.

Crosswords: Set Upon

I believe the sun should never set upon an argument (Affirmation; performing artist: Savage Garden)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

What then, can there no case happen wherein the people may of right, and by their own authority, help themselves, take arms, and set upon their king, imperiously domineering over them? None at all, whilst he remains a king. (Second Treatise of Government)

No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc. (reference)

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Expression using "set upon": to set upon. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏شرع (begin, commence, fall to, legislate, proceed, set about, start, tackle, undertake). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нахвърлям се на, нападам (assault, attack, do over, engage, fall on, fall upon, infest, insult, lunge, mob, oppugn, pitch into, rabble, sail into, set about, set on, shape up, strike, strongarm, turn on, turn upon, walk into, zap). (various references)

German

anfallen (accrue, accumulate, arise, assail, assault, attack, be incurred, savage, to accrue), überfallen (ambush, assault, attack, bushwhack, come over, come upon, descend upon, hijack, hold up, invade, mug, overtake, pounce upon, raid, raided, stick up, surprise, to hold up, waylay). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקום (arise, get up, happen, rise, stand up, take place). (various references)

Hungarian

ráuszít (set on, to set on, to set upon, to throw off), rátámad (fly at, to bad-mouth, to fall upon, to go for, to rush at sy, to rush on sy, to set on, to set upon), nekiesik (fall on, to assail, to come at, to fall on, to fall to, to fall upon, to go at it baldheaded, to set upon), hozzáfog (buckle down to, to get cracking, to go at it baldheaded, to grasp the nettle, to make a dent, to set upon, to start on). (various references)

Italian

assalire (assail, assault, attack, beset, mob, raid, rankle, set about, storm, violate). (various references)

Manx

soiaghey er (assault, attack, pitch into, raid, storm), slaughey. (various references)

Pig Latin

etsay onupay.(various references)

Scottish

geall (a pledge, bet, desire, love : an geall air, pledge, promise, wager, with the mind set upon). (various references)

Spanish

instigar contra (set on), emprender (adopt, assume, attack, enter on, go about, go around, go at, launch, light, set about, set out, start, tackle, take on, take over, take up, taking over, undertake), atacar (arraign, assail, assault, attack, bite, charge, come at, commit aggression, drive, engage, get at, go for, go in, gun, light into, pitch into, plough into, prey, raid, sail into, set about, set on, sick, slash, strike, stuff, tackle, tamp, tamp down, tamp in, walk in). (various references)

Swedish

överfalla (assail, assault, attack, mug, set on). (various references)

Ukrainian

нападати (assault, attack, blast, castigate, fall upon, fly at, insult, lay on, pile on, pounce, strike). (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: netops, pontes, puntos, putons, unstep, unstop, upsent.

-2 letters: estop, netop, notes, onset, opens, peons, pesto, poets, pones, pouts, punto, punts, puton, seton, setup, snout, spent, spout, steno, stone, stope, stoup, stupe, tones, tonus, topes, touse, tunes, unset, upset.

-3 letters: eons, epos, nest, nets, noes, nope, nose, note, nous, nuts, ones, onus, open, opes.

+1 letter: outspend, outspent, pleuston, unposted.

+2 letters: conceptus, eruptions, outpreens, outspends, outspoken, penthouse, plenteous, pleustons, subpotent, unspotted, unstopped, unstopper, uptowners.

+3 letters: bluepoints, conspectus, counterspy, houseplant, hypotenuse, importunes, outpunches, outspanned, penthouses, pleustonic, portentous, pothunters, pulmonates, resumption, stupendous, subpotency, subreption, supertonic, suppletion, underplots, unstoppers.

+4 letters: cantaloupes, conceptuses, consumptive, corruptness, counterpose, counterstep, countertops, couplements, deputations, euphoriants, expunctions, houseparent, houseplants, hypotenuses, hypothenuse, importuners, neutrophils, outpatients, outpressing, outsleeping, outspeaking, outspeeding, outspelling, outspending, outspokenly, outsprinted, peculations, pentamerous, peritoneums, persecution, piteousness, plenteously, pneumonitis, poussetting, precautions, preconquest, presumption, pretentious, procrustean, profoundest, prosecuting, prosecution, recoupments, reputations, resprouting, resumptions, speculation, spontaneous, subreptions, supernation, superstrong, supertonics, suppletions, teaspoonful, tenpounders, unstoppable, unstoppered, unsupported.