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Verb: sink in
  1. Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
    "The significance of his words finally sank in";
    - click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, penetrate, fall into place
     
  2. Pass through
    "Water sinks in sand easily";
    - percolate, permeate, filter

Derived forms: sunk in, sinking in, sank in, sinks in

Type of: penetrate, pierce, realise [Brit], realize, see, understand