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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