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单词 swotted
释义

swot

1 of 2

noun

ˈswät How to pronounce swot (audio)
British
: grind sense 2b

swot

2 of 2

verb

swotted; swotting

intransitive verb

British
: grind sense 4

Synonyms

Noun

  • bookworm
  • dink [slang]
  • dork [slang]
  • geek
  • grind
  • nerd
  • weenie
  • wonk
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Example Sentences

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, 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, 2 May 2018

Word History

Etymology

Noun

English dialect, sweat, from Middle English swot, from Old English swāt — more at sweat

First Known Use

Noun

1844, in the meaning defined above

Verb

circa 1860, in the meaning defined above

swotted

verb

past tense of swot, British
as in found out

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
  • found out
  • ground
  • deduced
  • analyzed
  • studied
  • crammed
  • read
  • boned (up)
  • memorized
  • researched
  • learned
  • understood
  • conned
  • restudied
  • knew
  • digested
  • apprehended
  • comprehended
  • grasped
  • absorbed
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