go into
verb1
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.
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Mathematics, Sciences 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.
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Colloquial To attack; to assault physically.
- [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:
- 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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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, into.