prepare

prepare
—preparer, n.
/pri pair"/, v., prepared, preparing.
v.t.
1. to put in proper condition or readiness: to prepare a patient for surgery.
2. to get (a meal) ready for eating, as by proper assembling, cooking, etc.
3. to manufacture, compound, or compose: to prepare a cough syrup.
4. Music. to lead up to (a discord, an embellishment, etc.) by some preliminary tone or tones.
v.i.
5. to put things or oneself in readiness; get ready: to prepare for war.
[1520-30; < L praeparare to make ready beforehand, equiv. to prae- PRE- + parare to set, get ready (akin to PARENT)]
Syn. 1. provide, arrange, order. PREPARE, CONTRIVE, DEVISE imply planning for and making ready for something expected or thought possible. 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 inventiveness. The first word suggests a shrewdness that borders on trickery, but this is absent from DEVISE: to contrive a means of escape; to devise a time-saving method. 3. make.
Ant. 1. disorganize.

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