go into

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Verb

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go into (third-person singular simple present goes into, present participle going into, simple past went into, past participle gone into)

  1. To get involved in; to investigate or explore.
    I don't want to go into the details now.
    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. (mathematics) To divide, to be a factor of.
    11 goes into 88 and 99 but not 100.
    7 goes into 46 six times, with remainder 4.
  4. (colloquial) To attack; to assault physically.
    Synonym: walk into
    • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, [], published 1848, →OCLC:
      [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.
    • 2017, Robert E. Howard, Sailor Steve Costigan & Other Tales of Boxing:
      I went into him like a whirlwind, lamming head on full into that left jab again and again []
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go,‎ into.