Come Home (Verb)
Meaning
Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow".
Classification
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.
Examples
- It slowly came home to her that she had made a terrible mistake by marrying him.
- As she heard the news of her mother's passing it came home to her that she was now an orphan.
- It didn't come home to him until later that his friend's strange behavior was due to the family crisis he was going through.
- The impact of what she had done finally came home to her as she gazed at the shattered pieces of her grandmother's antique vase.
- It wasn't until years later that the pain and reality of his abandonment came home to him, allowing him to heal and let go.