prepare
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
prepare/prɪˈpeə(r)/
▶verb
- 1 make ready for use or consideration.
■ make (food) ready for cooking or eating.
- 2 make or get ready to do or deal with something.
■ (be prepared to do something) be willing to do something.
- 3 make (a substance) by chemical reaction.
- 4 Music lead up to (a discord) by means of preparation.
– derivatives
preparer noun.
preparer noun.
– origin ME: from Fr. préparer or L. praeparare, from prae ‘before’ + parare ‘make ready’.
'prepare' also found in these Oxford entries:
address
- anticipate
- array
- batten
- blanch
- brace
- bracer
- bustle
- cape
- civil defence
- clear
- comb
- compose
- confit
- cook
- cultivate
- curry
- dight
- draft
- draw
- dress
- edit
- equip
- fettle
- finish
- flat
- forearm
- format
- formulate
- frame
- gear
- get
- gird
- groom
- ground
- jerk
- joint
- kosher
- lay
- legislate
- lister
- lumber
- make
- mark
- mobilize
- parade
- pare
- parison
- percolate
- pharmacist
