The meaning of PREPARE is to make ready beforehand for some purpose, use, or activity. How to use prepare in a sentence.

Idiom be prepared to do something (Definition of prepare from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

To prepare is to make ready beforehand for some approaching event, need, and the like: to prepare a room, a speech. Contrive and devise emphasize the exercise of ingenuity and …

1. to make ready or suitable in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc: to prepare a meal; to prepare to go. 4. (Music, other) (tr) music to soften the impact of (a …

When you prepare food, you get it ready to be eaten, for example by cooking it. She made her way to the kitchen, hoping to find someone preparing dinner. [VERB noun] The best way of …

There are 16 meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb prepare, two of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

Prepare definition: To make ready beforehand for a specific purpose, as for an event or occasion.

To be willing (to do something): I am not prepared to defend him when I know he was wrong. [Middle English preparen, from Old French preparer, from Latin praepar ā re : prae-, pre- + par …

Definition of prepare verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Synonyms for PREPARE: ready, provide, furnish, fortify, prep, equip, arrange, fix, lay, fit