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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To come or go into
Example:
the boat entered an area of shallow marshes
Synonyms:
come in; enter; get in; get into; go in; go into; move into
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go in"):
take the field (go on the playing field, of a football team)
penetrate; perforate (pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance)
re-enter (enter again)
file in (enter by marching in a file)
pop in (enter briefly)
walk in (enter by walking)
call at; out in (enter a harbor)
take water (enter the water)
turn in (make an entrance by turning from a road)
board; get on (get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.))
intrude; irrupt (enter uninvited)
encroach upon; intrude on; invade; obtrude upon (to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate)
dock (come into dock)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples:
The horse made me a sign to go in first; it was a large room with a smooth clay floor, and a rack and manger, extending the whole length on one side.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
When you read this, you may already be in a distant city or packing to go in February.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Go in by the shrubbery, through that wicket.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
We must go in the carriage, to be sure.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I have been thinking whether you had not better remain in the carriage with her, while I go in and break it to Mr and Mrs Musgrove.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
It is something which makes your body move, as the spring made the wheels go in my watch when I showed it to you.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
They were meat, and it was hungry; and it would like to go in and eat them if it dared.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
You will see that I have said, ‘I have determined not to go in for the examination.’
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was nothing lively about it, no snap or go in him and his fellows.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
“I saw Mr. Hyde go in by the old dissecting room, Poole,” he said.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
