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go in

verb
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, in. · It's getting cold. Let's go in.
  2. To become obscured by clouds. · It's chilly now the sun's gone in.
  3. To begin or become involved in some activity. · I wish I'd known that going in.
  4. To share in part of a project's or plan's duties or costs. · If you guys are fixing up that boat together to share it, I'll go in too.
  5. To become understood or accepted. · You have to tell him a hundred times if you want it to go in.
  6. To perform invasive surgery.
  7. To beat up or attack. (dated) · You went in on him with a knife?
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From the library

Here is the key of the door, so that you can go in and out as you please; you will bring the priest with you, and will oblige me by introducing him into my child’s room.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1020 · C1
There was no garret at all, and no cellar—except a small hole dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 1 · B2
The Witch was too much afraid of the dark to dare go in Dorothy’s room at night to take the shoes, and her dread of water was greater than her fear of the dark, so she never came near when Dorothy was bathing.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 88 · B2
“No—I have no idea what he intends to go in for.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 4 · B2

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