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To prepare means to get ready for something. When you prepare for a test, you'll get a better score than if you don’t.

Look at all the variations that you find with prepare. If you prepare yourself mentally for an experience, you sent you mind on it happening. If you're going to tell your family that you're moving out, you might want to prepare them by having them sit down. Are you prepared for their reaction? Are you prepared to defend your decision? You can prepare wood to be painted by cleaning and sanding it. And if you prepare dinner, you cook it.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: prepare

1	v	make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
2	v	prepare for eating by applying heat
3	v	lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: prepare

v make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc

“prepare for war”

Synonyms:: fix, gear up, ready, set, set up

Types:: show 14 types...; hide 14 types...; socialise, socialize
prepare for social life; provide
take measures in preparation for; cram
prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam; precondition
put into the required condition beforehand; fix
kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study; mount
fix onto a backing, setting, or support; lay out, set, set up
get ready for a particular purpose or event; winterise, winterize
prepare for winter; summerise, summerize
prepare for summer; prime
insert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing; crop, cultivate, work
prepare for crops; brace, poise
prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult; overcrop, overcultivate
to exhaust by excessive cultivation; nerve, steel
get ready for something difficult or unpleasant

Type of:: alter, change, modify
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

v arrange by systematic planning and united effort

Synonyms:: devise, get up, machinate, organise, organize

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; mount, put on
prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance; lay
prepare or position for action or operation; set up
begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.; sandwich
make into a sandwich; spatchcock
prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock; embattle
prepare for battle or conflict; rerun
rerun a performance of a play, for example

Type of:: initiate, pioneer
take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of

v to prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery

“prepare a report”

“prepare a speech”

Types:: rough, rough in, rough out
prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

Type of:: create, make
make or cause to be or to become

v educate for a future role or function

“The prince was prepared to become King one day”

Synonyms:: groom, train

: train
undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession; develop, educate, train
create by training and teaching; check, condition, discipline, train
develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control

Types:: dispose, qualify
make fit or prepared; habilitate
qualify for teaching at a university in Europe; capacitate
make capable

Type of:: educate
give an education to

v create by training and teaching

Synonyms:: develop, educate, train

: build up, develop
change the use of and make available or usable; train
undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession; groom, train
educate for a future role or function

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; retrain
teach new skills; drill
train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons; house-train, housebreak
train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house; toilet-train
train (a small child) to use the toilet

Type of:: instruct, learn, teach
impart skills or knowledge to

v undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession

Synonyms:: train

: develop, educate, train
create by training and teaching; groom, train
educate for a future role or function

Types:: apprentice
be or work as an apprentice; retrain
train again; drill
undergo military training or do military exercises

Type of:: learn, read, study, take
be a student of a certain subject

v prepare for eating by applying heat

Synonyms:: cook, fix, make, ready

: make
gather and light the materials for

Types:: show 20 types...; hide 20 types...; keep, preserve
prevent (food) from rotting; dress, dress out
kill and prepare for market or consumption; deglaze
dissolve cooking juices or solid food in (a pan) by adding liquid and stirring; escallop, scallop
bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top; flambe
pour liquor over and ignite (a dish); put on
put on the stove or ready for cooking; devil
coat or stuff with a spicy paste; precook
cook beforehand so that the actual preparation won't take long; whip up, whomp up
prepare or cook quickly or hastily; concoct, cook up
prepare or cook by mixing ingredients; lard
prepare or cook with lard; freeze-dry
preserve by rapid freezing and subsequently drying in a vacuum; conserve
preserve with sugar; dehydrate, desiccate
preserve by removing all water and liquids from; pickle
preserve in a pickling liquid; salt
preserve with salt; can, put up, tin
preserve in a can or tin; refrigerate
preserve by chilling; cure
prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; corn
preserve with salt

Type of:: create from raw material, create from raw stuff
make from scratch

v lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord

“prepare the discord in bar 139”

Type of:: sound
cause to sound

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