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Definition of dawn on phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

dawn on

phrasal verb

Phrasal Verbs

[no passive]

if something dawns on you, you begin to realize it for the first time Suddenly it dawned on me that they couldn't possibly have met before.

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