V.

shade; invest; bless; make; flash on; embower; flash; smite; break upon (кого-либо); enter mind; have an inspiration (She had an inspiration. – Ее осенило. VseZnaika); strike (of a thought); it clicked (Ant493); stumble on (мысль, идея; a great idea Rinagrin); have a brainwave (вариант требует замены безличной конструкции на личную • I couldn't see how I could get home from the station – then I had a brainwave. 4uzhoj); dawn

Gruzovik

overshadow (pf of осенять)

Gruzovik, veralt.

make the sign of the cross over (pf of осенять)

idiom.

come in a flash (The thing's perfectly clear. It came to me in a flash, as we were talking. – Меня осенило ART Vancouver); cross mind (Yeldar Azanbayev)

Makarow.

come into one's mind; cross one's mind; enter one's mind

Poet.

shadow

veralt.

make the sign of the cross (over)

übertr.

dawn on (Having travelled to UBC for a month with other bus riders squeezed in like sardines in a can, it dawned on me that I needed a car. – Меня осенило: ... ART Vancouver); dawn upon

осениться V.

Allg.

overshadow

Gruzovik, veralt.

cross oneself (pf of осеняться)

veralt.

make the sign of the cross (over)

übertr.

dawn upon; shield; strike

осенило V.

Allg.

then the light came on (VLZ_58)