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DIP INTO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dip into mean?
• DIP INTO (verb)
The verb DIP INTO has 1 sense:
1. read selectively; read only certain passages from a text
Familiarity information: DIP INTO used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Read selectively; read only certain passages from a text
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "dip into" is one way to...):
read (interpret something that is written or printed)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
A mile or so out upon the moor the road takes a very sudden dip into a hollow, with a peat-colored stream running swiftly down the centre of it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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