If you dip into a book or magazine you only read a small part of it.
Examples of use:
1. I don’t have time to sit and read this book properly so I just dip into it occasionally.
2. He hasn’t read all of Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, but he has dipped into it.
infinitive – dip into
present simple – dip into and dips into
-ing form – dipping into
past simple – dipped into
past participle – dipped into
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