• make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children ready for school!"; "Prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"
• undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession; "She is training to be a teacher"; "He trained as a legal aid"
• create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"
• arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director''s office"
• Prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
• to Prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery; "Prepare a report"; "Prepare a speech"
• lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord; "Prepare the discord in bar 139"
• Prepare (someone) for a future role or function; "He is grooming his son to become his successor"; "The prince was Prepared to become King one day"; "They trained him to be a warrior"

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