swot

POS

Noun, Verb (usu participle)

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun swot has 1 sense

swot(n = noun.person) dweeb, grind, nerd, wonk - an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious;

is a kind of assimilator, learner, scholar

Derived form verb swot₁

Verb swot has 1 sense

swot(v = verb.cognition) bone, bone up, cram, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot up - study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"

is one way to hit the books, study

Derived form noun swot₁

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something PP

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

swot, v. & n. Brit. colloq.
--v. (swotted, swotting)
1 intr. study assiduously.
2 tr. (often foll. by up) study (a subject) hard or hurriedly.
--n.
1 a person who swots.
2 a hard study. b a thing that requires this.

Etymology

dial. var. of SWEAT

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THESAURUS

swot

beast of burden, bone, commit to memory, con, contemplate, dig, drill, drudge, elucubrate, examine, fag, galley slave, get by heart, get letter-perfect, go over, greasy grind, grind, grub, hack, have by heart, know by heart, learn by heart, learn verbatim, lucubrate, memorize, parrot, peruse, plodder, plunge into, pore over, practice, read, recite, regard studiously, repeat, repeat by heart, restudy, review, slave, slogger, study, swot up, vet, wade through, workhorse