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sink in

(intr, adverb) to enter or penetrate the mind: eventually the news sank in.

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Verb	1.	sink in - become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow" come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, penetrate, get through, click
	2.	sink in - pass through; "Water permeates sand easily" filter, permeate, percolate penetrate, perforate - pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance; "The bullet penetrated her chest" infiltrate - pass into or through by filtering or permeating; "the substance infiltrated the material" infiltrate - cause (a liquid) to enter by penetrating the interstices

sink

verb

1. To fall or drift down to the bottom:

gravitate, settle.

2. To go beneath the surface or to the bottom of a liquid:

founder, submerge, submerse.

3. To go from a more erect posture to a less erect posture:

drop, fall, slump.

4. To slope downward:

decline, descend, dip, drop, fall, pitch.

5. To become lower in quality, character, or condition:

atrophy, decline, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, retrograde, worsen.

Idioms: go bad, go to pot, go to seed , go to the dogs.

6. To bring oneself down to a lower level of behavior:

descend, lower, stoop.

7. To undergo moral deterioration:

fall, slip.

Idiom: go bad.

8. To cause the complete ruin or wreckage of:

bankrupt, break down, cross up, demolish, destroy, finish, ruin, shatter, smash, spoil, torpedo, undo, wash up, wrack, wreck.

Slang: total.

Idiom: put the kibosh on.

9. To undergo a sharp, rapid descent in value or price:

dive, drop, fall, nose-dive, plummet, plunge, skid, slump, tumble.

Idiom: take a sudden downtrend.

10. To lose strength or power:

decline, degenerate, deteriorate, fade, fail, flag, languish, wane, waste (away), weaken.

Informal: fizzle (out).

Idioms: go downhill, hit the skids.

11. To cause to penetrate with force:

dig, drive, plunge, ram, run, stab, stick, thrust.

phrasal verb
sink in

To come as a realization:

dawn on (or upon), register, soak in.

noun

1. An area sunk below its surroundings:

basin, concavity, depression, dip, hollow, pit, sag, sinkhole.

2. A place known for its great filth or corruption:

cesspit, cesspool, pit.

Slang: armpit.

Translations

يُفْهَم، يُسْتَوْعَبيُمْتَص

proniknout do vědomívsáknout se

eindringen einsickern

être absorbé

hat: hatni kezd

síast inn, skiljastsíga , síast

sige ned synke inn

preniknúť do vedomiavpiť sa

emilmekiçine işlemekiyice anlaşılmak

渗被了解被理解

w>sink in

(into mud etc) → einsinken (→ prep obj, -to in +acc)

(inf: = be understood) → kapiert werden (inf); it’s only just sunk in that it really did happen → ich kapiere/er kapiert etc erst jetzt, dass das tatsächlich passiert ist (inf); can’t you get this to sink in? → kannst du das denn nicht in deinen dicken Schädel bekommen?; repeat each line so that the words sink in → wiederhole jede Zeile, damit dus dir merkst (inf)

vt sep stakes, pylons etc → einlassen (→ prep obj, -to in +acc)

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sink

(siŋk) – past tense sank (saŋk) : past participle sunk (saŋk) – verb

1. to (cause to) go down below the surface of water etc. The torpedo sank the battleship immediately; The ship sank in deep water.

2. to go down or become lower (slowly). The sun sank slowly behind the hills; Her voice sank to a whisper.

3. to (cause to) go deeply (into something). The ink sank into the paper; He sank his teeth into an apple.

4. (of one's spirits etc) to become depressed or less hopeful. My heart sinks when I think of the difficulties ahead.

5. to invest (money). He sank all his savings in the business.

noun

a kind of basin with a drain and a water supply connected to it. He washed the dishes in the sink.

ˈsunken adjective

1. sunk under water. a sunken ship.

2. below the level of the surrounding area. a sunken garden.

be sunk

to be defeated, in a hopeless position etc. If he finds out that we've been disobeying him, we're sunk.

sink in

1. to be fully understood. The news took a long time to sink in.

2. to be absorbed. The surface water on the paths will soon sink in.

References in classic literature ?

Light hearts, light hearts, that float so gaily on a smooth stream, that are so sparkling and buoyant in the sunshine--down upon fruit, bloom upon flowers, blush in summer air, life of the winged insect, whose whole existence is a day--how soon ye sink in troubled water!

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"Even though I've spent half my life at ADF, it's taking time to sink in. So much of my time there has been tied up with Martha [Myers, Burchfield's predecessor], who was--is--really my mentor, that I never really imagined it any other way.