POKE INTO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poke into mean? 

• POKE INTO (verb)
  The verb POKE INTO has 2 senses:

1. enter briefly

2. examine physically with or as if with a probe

  Familiarity information: POKE INTO used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POKE INTO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enter briefly

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

We poked into the bar

Hypernyms (to "poke into" is one way to...):

penetrate; perforate (pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Examine physically with or as if with a probe

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

dig into; poke into; probe

Context example:

probe an anthill

Hypernyms (to "poke into" is one way to...):

penetrate; perforate (pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "poke into"):

gutter (wear or cut gutters into)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something