fall upon

About 1.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To experience; to suffer.

   With the rise of the Internet, some media fell upon hard times.

2. verb To occur at some particular point in time.
3. verb To set upon; to attack suddenly; to invade.
4. verb To happen upon, find.

Similar words

come upon come to go through suffer undercome take pass through have meet befall