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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)

  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 going into

What is going into the present participle and gerund of?
Going into is the present participle and gerund of go into.

Words near going into in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: going 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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