descend on/upon sb/sth
— phrasal verb with descend uk/dɪˈsend/us/dɪˈsend/verb
If a group of people descend on a place or person, they arrive, usually without warning or without being invited:
Sorry to descend on you like this, but we didn't have a phone to call you.
The police descended on the house in the early hours of the morning.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Arriving, entering and invading
- annex
- barge
- barge in
- be on the scene idiom
- been
- breaking and entering idiom
- bugger
- go down
- invade
- keep (sb/sth) out
- land
- let
- let sb/sth in
- loom
- pile
- pitch
- pitch invasion
- pitch up
- rock
- roll up! idiom
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