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dawn upon

dawn upon is the alternative form of dawn on.

Meaning of dawn on

Verb

dawn on (third-person singular simple present dawns on, present participle dawning on, simple past and past participle dawned on)

  1. (idiomatic) To occur to somebody; to be realized by.
    • It finally dawned on him that he could automate the process instead of doing it by hand each time.
    Synonyms:
    strike, register

Forms of dawn upon

third-person singular presentdawns upon
present participledawning upon
past participledawned upon
pastdawned upon

Questions about dawn upon

What is dawn upon the alternative form of?
Dawn upon is the alternative form of dawn on.

Words near dawn upon in the dictionary

  1. dawn prayers
  2. dawn raid
  3. dawn raids
  4. dawn redwood
  5. dawn redwoods
  6. dawn upon
  7. Dawna
  8. Dawnay
  9. dawnce
  10. dawncer
  11. dawncers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dawn upon (page history and authors); dawn on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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