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swotting

swotting is the present participle and gerund of swot.

Meaning of swot

Verb

swot (third-person singular simple present swots, present participle swotting, simple past and past participle swotted)

  1. (Ireland, UK, informal, intransitive) To study with effort or determination.
    • Are you going to swot at it all the evening?
    Synonyms:
    cram

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Phrases with swotting

Questions about swotting

What is swotting the present participle and gerund of?
Swotting is the present participle and gerund of swot.

Words near swotting in the dictionary

  1. swotters
  2. swottier
  3. swottiest
  4. swottily
  5. swottiness
  6. swotting
  7. swotting up on
  8. swotty
  9. swotvac
  10. swotvacs
  11. swound

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swotting (page history and authors); swot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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