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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Among other things, its instruments drilled into the Moon's surface, tested an extraterrestrial vacuum cleaner, and showed that future missions could use GPS navigation signals to navigate on the lunar surface.
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Ars Technica, 18 Mar. 2025
Although the Hanging Temple doesn’t technically hang—holes as deep as ten feet were drilled into the rock to stabilize it—its hovering precipice is still dangerous.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
Steel mesh is drilled into the underside to keep concrete from raining down on the public below.
—Sam Schwartz, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2025
On board the lander is a piece of NASA equipment called Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1, which will drill into the Moon’s surface to look for ice.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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Ars Technica, 18 Mar. 2025
Although the Hanging Temple doesn’t technically hang—holes as deep as ten feet were drilled into the rock to stabilize it—its hovering precipice is still dangerous.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
Steel mesh is drilled into the underside to keep concrete from raining down on the public below.
—Sam Schwartz, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2025
On board the lander is a piece of NASA equipment called Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1, which will drill into the Moon’s surface to look for ice.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Drill into.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drill%20into. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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