swot
verb/swɒt/
/swɑːt/
[intransitive] (British English, informal)Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they swot | /swɒt/ /swɑːt/ |
| he / she / it swots | /swɒts/ /swɑːts/ |
| past simple swotted | /ˈswɒtɪd/ /ˈswɑːtɪd/ |
| past participle swotted | /ˈswɒtɪd/ /ˈswɑːtɪd/ |
| -ing form swotting | /ˈswɒtɪŋ/ /ˈswɑːtɪŋ/ |
- swot (for something) to study very hard, especially in order to prepare for an examTopics Educationc2Word Originmid 19th cent.: dialect variant of sweat.
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