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1. Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
   - 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: sinks in, sunk in, sinking in, sank in

See also: sink

Type of: penetrate, perforate