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PREPARE FOR
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Prepare mentally or emotionally for something unpleasant
Synonyms:
brace oneself for; prepare for; steel oneself against; steel onself for
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "prepare for" is one way to...):
harden; indurate; inure (cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
He too had his book, and was seeking Fanny, to ask her to rehearse with him, and help him to prepare for the evening, without knowing Miss Crawford to be in the house; and great was the joy and animation of being thus thrown together, of comparing schemes, and sympathising in praise of Fanny's kind offices.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
It is natural to think of it, Meg, right to hope and wait for it, and wise to prepare for it, so that when the happy time comes, you may feel ready for the duties and worthy of the joy.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Then, sir, prepare for war.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Never will I give up my search until he or I perish; and then with what ecstasy shall I join my Elizabeth and my departed friends, who even now prepare for me the reward of my tedious toil and horrible pilgrimage!
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Then he deliberately set himself down to prepare for the task.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
No theatre, no rooms to prepare for.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I mean you to accompany me to Millcote this morning; and while you prepare for the drive, I will enlighten the old lady's understanding.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
You may be gathering up your receipts for your accountant to prepare for filing your tax return or, if you are getting married, to decide how you will handle household finances.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
They had not long been together before Mr. Darcy told her that Bingley was also coming to wait on her; and she had barely time to express her satisfaction, and prepare for such a visitor, when Bingley's quick step was heard on the stairs, and in a moment he entered the room.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Van Helsing has gone away to prepare for the meeting, and his painful part of it.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
