dawned
SayDAWNDUS/dɔnd/UK/dɔːnd/AUS/doːnd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of dawn.
The day dawned clear after a week of storms.
It slowly dawned on her that no one was coming to help.
Note
Both forms share one regular spelling, but the participle has a narrow job. Every verb use of dawn is intransitive, so the participle appears only in perfect tenses with have, as in by morning a new day had dawned. There is no passive: nothing is ever "dawned" by anyone. The figurative uses follow the same rule, so a truth has dawned on someone but is never "dawned" itself.
dawned is a form of dawn
dawn, verb: To begin to appear or become evident, as a realization or understanding gradually does. Full entry
- Spelling
- dawn → dawned: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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