Be prepared to do anything

If you prepare a meal, you produce it by mixing foods together. Prepare is one of several verbs which can be used to say that someone produces a meal. To make ready beforehand for a specific purpose, as for an event or occasion: The teacher prepared the students for the exams. To put together or make by combining various elements or ingredients; manufacture or compound: prepared a meal; prepared the lecture. To fit out; equip: prepared the ship for an arctic expedition. Music To lead up to and soften a dissonance or its impact by means of preparation.