Meaning of go into | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To get involved in; to investigate or explore.
2. To embark upon as an occupation or profession.
3. To divide, to be a factor of.
4. To attack; to assault physically.
   colloquial
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, into.

Equivalents

Examples

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

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

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

“11 goes into 88 and 99 but not 100.”

“7 goes into 46 six times, with remainder 4.”

“[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.”

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

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