prepare
/pɹɪˈpɛ(ə)ɹ/ verb A2- To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip; to forearm. · We prepared the spacecraft for takeoff.
- To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook. · We prepared a fish for dinner.
- To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation. · We prepared for a bumpy ride.
- To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound. · She prepared a meal from what was left in the cupboards.
Plural prepare · He/she/it prepares · Past prepared · Past participle prepared · -ing form preparing
Verb forms
- Base form
- prepare
- He/she/it
- prepares
- Past
- prepared
- Past participle
- prepared
- -ing form
- preparing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
There he saw the grand-marshal, who charged him with an oral message to a Bonapartist in Paris, whose name I could not extract from him; but this mission was to prepare men’s minds for a return (it is the man who says this, sire)—a return which will soon occur.”
So does the card on the body, which might have been prepared in the house.
“And then,” said Madame de Villefort, endeavoring by a struggle, and with effort, to get away from her thoughts, “however skilfully it is prepared, crime is always crime, and if it avoid human scrutiny, it does not escape the eye of God.
When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles, for their mistress, no longer hearing the hour from the cock, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.
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