Dictionary

come upon en · VERB

Meanings

1. To discover or find, especially by chance or accident.
   • Kala sometimes talked with the older females about her young hopeful, but none of them could understand how a child could be so slow and backward in learning to care for itself. Why, it could not even find food alone, and more than twelve moons had passed since Kala had come upon it. 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
   • We came upon the skeleton while we were hiking.
2. To befall; to affect; to happen to.
   • I pray no harm will come upon you.

Forms

Deriveds

come upon the town · come upon the parish

Synonyms

run across · encounter · stumble upon · come across

Translations (24)

pl zdarzać się (to befall; to affect) · pl natknąć się (to come across; to discover) · cmn 偶遇 (to come across; to discover) · ru настига́ть (to befall; to affect) · pl wpadać (to come across; to discover) · it imbattersi (to come across; to discover) · ru наткну́ться (to come across; to discover) · pl natrafiać (to come across; to discover) · pl zdarzyć się (to befall; to affect) · pl przydarzyć się (to befall; to affect) · sv komma över (to come across; to discover) · got 𐌱𐌹𐌵𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 (to befall; to affect) · no komme over (to come across; to discover) · la inveniō (to come across; to discover) · pl napotkać (to come across; to discover) · ru насти́гнуть (to befall; to affect) · pl natykać się (to come across; to discover) · pl wpaść (to come across; to discover) · pl napotykać (to come across; to discover) · ga tar ar (to come across; to discover) · pl natrafić (to come across; to discover) · ru натыка́ться (to come across; to discover) · pl przydarzać się (to befall; to affect) · sv finna (to come across; to discover)