prepare

Definition

  • verb: to make (someone or something) ready for some activity, purpose, use, etc.
  • verb: to make ready beforehand for some purpose, use, or activity
  • often + 'for'
  • synonyms: provide, preparation, framed

Examples

  • We don't have much more time to 'prepare' ourselves 'for' their arrival.

  • They'll be arriving soon. We don't have much more time to 'prepare'.

  • He 'prepares for' games by studying tapes of the opposing team.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Let me be cruel, not unnatural. I will speak daggers to her but use none I like him not, nor stands it safe with us to let his madness range. Therefore prepare you I your commission will forthwith dispatch and he to England shall return with you The terms of our estate (..)
    2015 Hamlet
  • (..) - I will, my lord If he steal aught whilst this play is playing and scape detecting, I will pay the theft They are coming to the play, I must prepare And can you by no drift of circumstance get from him why he puts on this confusion Grating so harshly all our days of quiet (..)
    2015 Hamlet