dawn on
phrasal verbdawn on somebody
- [no passive] if something dawns on you, you begin to realize it for the first time
- it dawns on somebody that… Suddenly it dawned on me that they couldn't possibly have met before.
Extra Examples- It slowly dawned on me that he might have been mistaken.
- It was beginning to dawn on her that she had been fooled.
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