go into

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go into

verb goes into · going into · went into · gone into

To get involved in; to investigate or explore. I don't want to go into the details now.
To embark upon as an occupation or profession. I worked for a while as a PA before I went into teaching.
To divide, to be a factor of. 11 goes into 88 and 99 but not 100.
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.
Similar: walk into
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, into.

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@misc{go_into_2026,
  title = {go into},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/go%20into},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}