Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to prepare
Participle: prepared
Gerund: preparing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | prepare |
| you | prepare |
| he;she;it | prepares |
| we | prepare |
| you | prepare |
| they | prepare |
Perfect
| I | have prepared |
| you | have prepared |
| he;she;it | has prepared |
| we | have prepared |
| you | have prepared |
| they | have prepared |
Past
| I | prepared |
| you | prepared |
| he;she;it | prepared |
| we | prepared |
| you | prepared |
| they | prepared |
Pluperfect
| I | had prepared |
| you | had prepared |
| he;she;it | had prepared |
| we | had prepared |
| you | had prepared |
| they | had prepared |
Future
| I | will prepare |
| you | will prepare |
| he;she;it | will prepare |
| we | will prepare |
| you | will prepare |
| they | will prepare |
Future Perfect
| I | will have prepared |
| you | will have prepared |
| he;she;it | will have prepared |
| we | will have prepared |
| you | will have prepared |
| they | will have prepared |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | prepare |
| you | prepare |
| he;she;it | prepare |
| we | prepare |
| you | prepare |
| they | prepare |
Perfect
| I | have prepared |
| you | have prepared |
| he;she;it | have prepared |
| we | have prepared |
| you | have prepared |
| they | have prepared |
Imperfect
| I | prepared |
| you | prepared |
| he;she;it | prepared |
| we | prepared |
| you | prepared |
| they | prepared |
Pluperfect
| I | had prepared |
| you | had prepared |
| he;she;it | had prepared |
| we | had prepared |
| you | had prepared |
| they | had prepared |
Conditional
Present
| I | would prepare |
| you | would prepare |
| he;she;it | would prepare |
| we | would prepare |
| you | would prepare |
| they | would prepare |
Perfect
| I | would have prepared |
| you | would have prepared |
| he;she;it | would have prepared |
| we | would have prepared |
| you | would have prepared |
| they | would have prepared |
Imperative
| you | prepare |
| we | Let's prepare |
| you | prepare |
Verbs conjugated like 'prepare'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'prepare'
præpare,
preparse,
preace,
prearm,
prease,
prebake,
precure,
predate,
preface,
prefade,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- arrange
- anticipate, contrive, devise, order, plan
- make
- compose, fit, compound, get, fix, manufacture
Antonyms
- arrange
- disarrange, disorder, derange, jumble
- make
- destroy, annihilate, demolish, dismantle
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Partially a back-formation from preparation; and partially borrowed from Middle French preparer, from Classical Latin praeparāre (“make ready in advance”), from prae- (“pre-”) + parāre (“make ready”). Compare Middle English preparaten (“to prepare”). See: Middle French '
preparer', Latin '
praeparo'.
Verbs referencing "prepare"
Finnish with old forms
preparoida.
Sample Sentences
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We had experienced a pretty smart shock before coming below, which, but that we were the most sanguine people living, might have prepared us for the worst. The imaginative artist to whom I have already made allusion, has depicted in the same great work, a chamber of almost interminable perspective, furnished, as Mr. Robins would [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] other children. More spiritual and affectionate friendships appeared to exist among them, than would be found among other young persons suffering under no deprivation; but this I expected and was prepared to find. It is a part of the great scheme of Heaven 's merciful consideration for the afflicted.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] Newfoundland, who slept at the end of the porch, rose, with a low growl, as she came near. She gently spoke his name, and the animal, an old pet and playmate of hers, instantly, wagging his tail, prepared to follow her, though apparently revolving much, in this simple dog's head, what such an indiscreet midnight promenade might mean. Some dim ideas of imprudence or impropriety in the measure seemed [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed. Among such was the delicate woman who sits there by the lamp, dropping slow tears, while she prepares the memorials of her own lost one for the outcast wanderer.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] had excused Aunt Chloe's attendance at the great house that morning. The poor soul had expended all her little energies on this farewell feast,—had killed and dressed her choicest chicken, and prepared her corn-cake with scrupulous exactness, just to her husband's taste, and brought out certain mysterious jars on the mantel-piece, some preserves that were never produced except on extreme occasions.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Soon after nine o’clock we come to Potomac Creek, where we are to land; and then comes the oddest part of the journey. Seven stage-coaches are preparing to carry us on. Some of them are ready, some of them are not ready. Some of the drivers are blacks, some whites. There are four horses to each coach, and all the horses, harnessed or unharnessed, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] All men who know that there are laws against instructing slaves, of which the pains and penalties greatly exceed in their amount the fines imposed on those who maim and torture them, must be prepared to find their faces very low in the scale of intellectual expression. But the darkness—not of skin, but mind—which meets the stranger 's eye at every turn; the brutalizing and blotting out of all [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and half-kitchen, with a coarse brown canvas table-cloth, and tin sconces stuck against the walls, to hold candles at supper-time. The horseman had gone forward to have coffee and some eatables prepared, and they were by this time nearly ready. He had ordered ‘wheat-bread and chicken fixings, ’ in preference to ‘corn-bread and common doings. ’ The latter kind of rejection includes only pork and [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] through the usual wide street, lined with the usual stores and houses (the drapers always having hung up at their door, by way of sign, a piece of bright red cloth ), to the hotel where this meal is prepared. There being many boarders here, we sit down, a large party, and a very melancholy one as usual. But there is a buxom hostess at the head of the table, and opposite, a simple Welsh schoolmaster [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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But Canada has held, and always will retain, a foremost place in my remembrance. Few Englishmen are prepared to find it what it is. Advancing quietly; old differences settling down, and being fast forgotten; public feeling and private enterprise alike in a sound and wholesome state; nothing of flush or [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)