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gone into

gone into is the past participle 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 gone into

What is gone into the past participle of?
Gone into is the past participle of go into.

Words near gone into in the dictionary

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

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