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View synonyms for go in

go in

verb

  1. to enter

  2. (preposition) See go into

  3. (of the sun) to become hidden behind a cloud

  4. to be assimilated or grasped

    nothing much goes in if I try to read in the evenings

  5. cricket to begin an innings

    1. to enter as a competitor or contestant

    2. to adopt as an activity, interest, or guiding principle

      she went in for nursing

      some men go in for football in a big way

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Enter, especially into a building. For example, It's cold out here, so can we go in? [Tenth century a.d. ]

Be obscured, as in After the sun went in, it got quite chilly . [Late 1800s]

go in with . Join others in some venture. For example, He went in with the others to buy her a present . [Late 1800s] Also see the subsequent idioms beginning with go in .

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Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The defendant said the jacket was still clean, so it went in the box with a "man bag" he'd worn earlier.

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“I hope to see Saudi Arabia go in, and I hope to see others go in,” the president told Fox News in an interview conducted Oct.

“We’re going to give it a little chance,” the President said Monday, but if Hamas doesn’t “behave,” he added, he could tell Israel to “go in and take care of it.”

“The rules were, if the celebrities were in the room, you couldn’t go in, and I was terrified,” he says, “but she said, ‘Honey, sit down and have some fruit.

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"It's really hard to invest in anything when there's unknowns, especially works of great value or works that are going to go in your home for a long time," Ms Lin said.

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