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sink in

sink in verb: to become completely known, felt, or understood.

Verb

sink in (third-person singular simple present sinks in, present participle sinking in, simple past sank in, past participle sunk in or sunken in)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To become completely known, felt, or understood.
    • He knows he's been naughty, but it will take a while for it to sink in.
    • The gravity of what I had done hadn't sunken in yet.

sink in meaning in Malayalam

sink in in Malayalam

be understood, register, be comprehended
മനസ്സിൽ കടക്കുക, തലയിൽ കയറുക, നന്നായി മനസ്സിലാവുക, ബോദ്ധ്യമാവുക, വിശ്വസിക്കുക, മനസ്സിൽ പതിയുക

Synonyms of sink in

Forms of sink in

third-person singular presentsinks in
present participlesinking in
pastsank in
past participlesunk in
past participlesunken in

Words formed from sink in

Questions about sink in

What does sink in mean?
Sink in means to become completely known, felt, or understood.
What is sink in in Malayalam?
Sink in in Malayalam is മനസ്സിൽ കടക്കുക, തലയിൽ കയറുക, നന്നായി മനസ്സിലാവുക. See Sink in meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is sink in?
Sink in is a verb.
What is the past tense of sink in?
The past tense of sink in is sank in.

Words near sink in in the dictionary

  1. sink estates
  2. sink function
  3. sink functions
  4. sink hole
  5. sink holes
  6. sink in
  7. sink like a stone
  8. sink of iniquity
  9. sink one's teeth in
  10. sink one's teeth into
  11. sink or swim

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sink in (page history and authors); sink in (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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