going into
going into is the present participle and gerund 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)
- 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.
- 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
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, into.
Questions about going into
- What is going into the present participle and gerund of?
- Going into is the present participle and gerund of go into.
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