if something dawns on you, you realize it for the first time
Afterwards it dawns on me how tough this is going to be.
And then it gradually begins to dawn on you.
It was only then that it dawned on both of them that he was serious.
It was several months before the truth finally dawned on me.
Little by little it dawned on Archie that his wife was not coming back.
Then it dawned on me she was with another bloke.
dawns on
dawning on
dawned on
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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