"open someone's eyes" meaning in English

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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "opening someone's eyes",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "opened someone's eyes",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "opened someone's eyes",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "text": "Visiting Africa opened my eyes to what it is like living without clean water.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 July 26, Pip Dunn, “Merseyrail '777s' are OK for commuters”, in RAIL, number 988, page 61",
          "text": "I have to admit that Merseyside was the one area of the railway I had little experience of until this year, but two visits […] have opened my eyes to what is an incredibly well-run network, with such friendly staff and locals.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make someone aware of something they did not know or fully understand before; to enlighten someone."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "enlighten",
          "enlighten"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To make someone aware of something they did not know or fully understand before; to enlighten someone."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "eye-opener"
        }
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
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      "form": "opening someone's eyes",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "opened someone's eyes",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "opened someone's eyes",
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          "type": "example"
        },
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          "text": "I have to admit that Merseyside was the one area of the railway I had little experience of until this year, but two visits […] have opened my eyes to what is an incredibly well-run network, with such friendly staff and locals.",
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      ],
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      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To make someone aware of something they did not know or fully understand before; to enlighten someone."
      ],
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