Usually means: Encounter or experience suddenly, unexpectedly.
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  1. fall upon: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fall upon: Vocabulary.com
  3. fall upon: Wiktionary
  4. fall upon: Dictionary.com
  5. fall upon: Rhymezone
  6. Fall Upon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  7. fall upon: Free Dictionary
  8. fall upon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. fall upon: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. fall upon: Legal dictionary

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  1. fall upon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fall upon: Medical dictionary

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  1. fall upon: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (fall upon)

verb:  To experience; to suffer.
verb:  To occur at some particular point in time.
verb:  To set upon; to attack suddenly; to invade.
verb:  To happen upon, find.

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