Definition of "dig into" []

• To research a particular subject. (verb)
• To heartily begin eating. (verb)

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• "I decided to go back to my apartment and get some breakfast, then head up to the University of Utah to dig into some textbooks on seismicity and structural geology."
• "In school I studied with much more determination than other students, on a mad hurry-hurry schedule to get back home and dig into housework."
• "They are afraid, their sharp-nailed little hands dig into our adult flesh as, big-eyed, they urge us to run as soon as we heard the RATs, run, run away now."