set upon

1. 1.

   assail or attack on all sides: "The zebra was beset by leopards"

   Synonymsbeset

   Broaderassail

Questions about set upon

What does set upon mean?

set upon means "assail or attack on all sides: "The zebra was beset by leopards"".

What is another word for set upon?

Close synonyms include beset. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is set upon a common word?

set upon is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.