Prepare Preparing Prepared I Make Report Students Time

• to prepare a report
• a hotel room is being prepared for them.
• the college prepares students for a career in business.
• i had no time to prepare.

prepare

1. to make something or somebody ready to be used or to do something
• to prepare a report
• A hotel room is being prepared for them.
• The college prepares students for a career in business.
2. to make yourself ready to do something or for something that you expect to happen
• I had no time to prepare.
• The whole class is working hard preparing for the exams.
• The police are preparing themselves for trouble at the demonstration.
• I had been preparing myself for this moment.
• Her condition is not improving as we hoped. You must prepare yourselves for the worst.
• I was preparing to leave.
• The troops prepared themselves to go into battle.
3. to make food ready to be eaten
• He was in the kitchen preparing lunch.
4. to make a medicine or chemical substance, for example by mixing other substances together
• remedies prepared from herbal extracts
5. to make it possible or easier for something to be achieved
• The committee will prepare the ground for next month's meeting.
• Early experiments with rockets prepared the ground for space travel.

Extra Examples

• How do you go about mentally preparing yourself for a project?
• I haven’t had time to prepare my arguments properly.
• I was busily preparing a salad for the evening meal.
• Just prepare according to package directions.
• Penn needs to prepare for a medical school interview.
• The course is designed to prepare graduates for management careers.
• The family are preparing for the worst.
• The lectures were carefully prepared.
• We all set about preparing for the party.
• a meal that is very quick and easy to prepare
• a table full of specially prepared food
• the chicken casserole I had so lovingly prepared for her
• Her condition is not improving as we had hoped. You must prepare yourselves for the worst.
• I’ve asked her to prepare a report for the meeting.
• She had prepared a chicken casserole for dinner.
• The committee will prepare the ground for next month’s meeting.
• The remedies are all prepared from wild flowers.
• The whole class is preparing for the exams.
• The women were busy preparing the wedding feast.
• to prepare students for exams

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they prepare
• he / she / it prepares
• past simple prepared
• past participle prepared
• -ing form preparing

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from French préparer or Latin praeparare, from prae ‘before’ + parare ‘make ready’.