drill into
phrasal verb
drilled into; drilling into; drills into
: to force (something) to be learned very well by (someone) by repeating it again and again
Our teacher drilled the lesson into our heads.
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Its device is considered highly invasive, requiring a robotic arm to drill into the skull.
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PC Magazine, 21 Nov. 2025
Rescuers are continuing to search for a missing coal miner, who has been trapped in a flooded West Virginia coal mine since Saturday, as rescuers look to drill into the mine with the search entering its fifth day.
—Mason Leath, ABC News, 12 Nov. 2025
However, drilling into these areas could help to identify the chemistry of potential habitats for past or present microbial life.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Boyles said the city’s utilities department was drilling into the concrete to put in a pressure-relieving pipe to release the methane.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 23 Oct. 2025
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PC Magazine, 21 Nov. 2025
Rescuers are continuing to search for a missing coal miner, who has been trapped in a flooded West Virginia coal mine since Saturday, as rescuers look to drill into the mine with the search entering its fifth day.
—Mason Leath, ABC News, 12 Nov. 2025
However, drilling into these areas could help to identify the chemistry of potential habitats for past or present microbial life.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Boyles said the city’s utilities department was drilling into the concrete to put in a pressure-relieving pipe to release the methane.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 23 Oct. 2025
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“Drill into.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drill%20into. Accessed 28 Nov. 2025.
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