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

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 …

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

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 …

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.

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 …

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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 …