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say it: pree-PER
prepare is a verb meaning "make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc". It carries 8 recorded senses.
create by training and teaching
“The old master is training world-class violinists”
“we develop the leaders for the future”
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”
music
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for prepare come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.