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phrasedawn on/upon
! Dawn upon is more formal than dawn on and is mostly used in writing.
dawn on/upon sb if something dawns on you, you realize it for the first timeit dawns on sb (that) It suddenly dawned on Steve that he'd been making a complete fool of himself. Then it dawned on me that I was totally wasting my time in this job.sth dawns on sb The size of the task in front of us was slowly dawning on me.■ SIMILAR TO: strike
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