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swot
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; Array 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
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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.
--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
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
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