"dawned" in the verb sense

1. click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into place

become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions

"It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"

"she was penetrated with sorrow"

2. dawn

appear or develop

"The age of computers had dawned"

3. dawn

become light

"It started to dawn, and we had to get up"

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