WordNet
adj. caused to be realized; "it was borne in upon us how close we had been to disaster" [syn: borne in upon(p)]
Usage examples of "borne in upon".
When the full implications of what we had found were borne in upon Us, we were highly elated.
Well, I had a word or two with this chappie, and after a brief conversation it was borne in upon me that I was up to the gills.
When it was borne in upon him that nothing he did could have any effect on what happened, that his authority had become total helplessness, the shock and shame struck with crippling power.
But it was now borne in upon him that it actually applied to living beings, that the men and women surrounding him could, by custom, live only to, sixty.
But it was now borne in upon him that it actually applied to living beings, that the men and women surrounding him could, by custom, live only to sixty.
Traveling, formerly as a sailor, now as an agent of the Ecological Service, I have had borne in upon me how immense the world is, how various and mysterious.