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View definitions for descend upon

descend upon

verb as in visit

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Whenever one is posted, customers within quick driving or running distance descend upon the store, as they did last Thursday afternoon after the Century City Pop Mart used red siren emojis to announce it had 83 Labubus for sale: “Hot restock announcement… sales start right now.”

Hurricane season suddenly appeared to descend upon England when the BBC Weather app warned of estimated wind speeds in London of 13,508 mph, and temperatures reaching 404 degrees C in Nottingham.

From Slate

Through fingerlike projections that descend upon the uterine wall, it attempts to quench the embryo’s appetite for maternal blood.

From Slate

Now, as an estimated 50,000 people descend upon Chicago for the Democratic National Convention, Illinois Governor J.B.

From Salon

Hundreds of people are expected to descend upon the small island for the Games.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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