go into

English

Verb

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.