swot

\ ˈswät

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Definition of swot

(Entry 1 of 2)

British

: grind sense 2b

swot

swotted; swotting

Definition of swot (Entry 2 of 2)

intransitive verb

British

: grind sense 4

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Examples of swot in a Sentence

Noun every time he begged off a night at the pub—saying he had to study—his mates teased him for being a swot

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Greenblatt might want to have a chinwag with some of his colleagues in the history department and swot up the biography of someone like Wisconsin’s Robert La Follette, a progressive populist politician perhaps more to his liking. — Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, "Stephen Greenblatt’s ‘Tyrant’ joins this year’s crop of hate reads," 2 May 2018 Greenblatt might want to have a chinwag with some of his colleagues in the history department and swot up the biography of someone like Wisconsin’s Robert La Follette, a progressive populist politician perhaps more to his liking. — Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, "Stephen Greenblatt’s ‘Tyrant’ joins this year’s crop of hate reads," 2 May 2018

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Last Updated

27 Jan 2020

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“Swot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swot. Accessed 18 Feb. 2020.

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