COME UPON (SOMEBODY/SOMETHING)


Meaning of COME UPON (SOMEBODY/SOMETHING) in English

come upon somebody/something phrasal verb ( see also ↑ come )

1 . to find or discover something or someone by chance:

We came upon a cottage just on the edge of the wood.

2 . literary if a feeling comes upon you, you suddenly feel it:

A wave of tiredness came upon her.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.