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swot up
verb
study intensively, as before an exam
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I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam

• Syn:
↑cram, ↑grind away, ↑drum, ↑bone up, ↑swot, ↑get up, ↑mug up, ↑bone
• Derivationally related forms: ↑swot (for: ↑swot), ↑crammer (for: ↑cram)
• Hypernyms: ↑study, ↑hit the books
• Verb Group: ↑cram
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

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Somebody ——s something PP

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ˌswot ˈup [intransitive/transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they swot up he/she/it swots up present participle swotting up past tense swotted up past participle swotted up] british informal phrasal verb
to study something very hard, especially for an examination

I’ve got to swot up the French Revolution for tomorrow’s test.

I swotted up on my Spanish before the holiday.

Thesaurus: to study, or to study hardsynonym university and college studentshyponym
Main entry: swot

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swot up [phrasal verb]
swot up or swot (something) up or swot up (something) : to study (something) very hard

She swotted up for the French exam. = She swotted up French for the exam.

— often + on

He needs to swot up on French verbs.

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Main Entry: ↑swot

Useful english dictionary. 2012.