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goes into

goes into is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go into.

Meaning of go into

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.
  2. To embark upon as an occupation or profession.
    • I worked for a while as a PA before I went into teaching.
  3. To divide, to be a factor of.
    • 11 goes into 88 and 99 but not 100.
  4. (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
    Synonyms:
    walk into
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, into.

Questions about goes into

What is goes into the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Goes into is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go into.

Words near goes into in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: goes into (page history and authors); go into (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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