dawn on somebody phrasal verb ( see also ↑ dawn )
if a fact dawns on you, you realize it for the first time:
The ghastly truth dawned on me.
It dawned on me that Jo had been right all along.
dawn on somebody phrasal verb ( see also ↑ dawn )
if a fact dawns on you, you realize it for the first time:
The ghastly truth dawned on me.
It dawned on me that Jo had been right all along.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Longman - Словарь современного английского языка. 2012