Today’s “Word of the Day” is dawn on and it is a phrasal verb meaning “if something (an idea or fact) dawns on you, you begin to understand it for the first time; come to mind, strike, be perceived, be realized”.
Example Sentence: It must now be dawning on many of these small businesses that, for them, there will be no bouncing back. Many will go under – including some whose underlying business is perfectly sound, but who simply do not have the cash reserves to weather (survive) our prolonged state of quasi-lockdown.
This word is present in The The Guardian article The UK’s private debt crisis will make this recession so much worse and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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