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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow" [syn: click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into place]
2: pass through; "Water permeates sand easily" [syn: percolate, sink in, permeate, filter]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

When a statement or fact sinks in, you finally understand or realize it fully. The implication took a while to sink in. PHRASAL VERB: V P

Moby Thesaurus

affect, arrest the thoughts, be glimpsed, be remembered, bemire, bog, bog down, catch the thoughts, come home to, come through, dawn on, get across, get over, grab, hit, hit the mark, impress, impress forcibly, make an impression, mire, never be forgotten, obsess, penetrate, rankle, register, rock, smite, soak in, stodge, strike, strike hard, strike home, tell, traumatize