go into

present singular third person goes into · participle present going into · past went into · participle past gone into

1. To get involved in; to investigate or explore.

   I don't want to go into the details now.

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   We need to go into the background of the case before jumping to conclusions.

2. To embark upon as an occupation or profession.

   I worked for a while as a PA before I went into teaching.

3. mathematicsTo divide, to be a factor of.

   11 goes into 88 and 99 but not 100.

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   7 goes into 46 six times, with remainder 4.

4. colloquialTo attack; to assault physically.

   I went into him like a whirlwind, lamming head on full into that left jab again and again […]

   2017, Robert E. Howard, Sailor Steve Costigan & Other Tales of Boxing

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   [T]he Chicken had been tapped, and bunged, and had received pepper, and had been made groggy, and had come up piping, and had endured a complication of similar strange inconveniences, until he had been gone into and finished.

   1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC

   Synonyms: walk into

5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, into.