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go into detail

go into detail verb: to explain or discuss something more fully by providing extra information, specifics, or examples.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To explain or discuss something more fully by providing extra information, specifics, or examples.

Forms of go into detail

third-person singular presentgoes into detail
present participlegoing into detail
pastwent into detail
past participlegone into detail

Questions about go into detail

What does go into detail mean?
Go into detail means to explain or discuss something more fully by providing extra information, specifics, or examples.
What part of speech is go into detail?
Go into detail is a verb.
What is the past tense of go into detail?
The past tense of go into detail is went into detail.

Words near go into detail in the dictionary

  1. go in one ear and out the other
  2. go in the out door
  3. go in unto
  4. go in with
  5. go into
  6. go into detail
  7. go into one's shell
  8. go into the long grass
  9. go it
  10. go it alone
  11. go it blind

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