to attack someone or something
Girls in the gang calmly watched as he was set upon by about 20 male youths.
He was set upon by three men who stole his laptop as he held it up to film the scene with a webcam.
The Pearl Jam bass player and a friend were set upon by three masked men outside a recording studio.
This was an horrendous crime on a man of 24 just walking home with his girlfriend when he was set upon by those three drunken yobs.
sets upon
setting upon
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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