PREPARE FOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prepare for mean? 

• PREPARE FOR (verb)
  The verb PREPARE FOR has 1 sense:

1. prepare mentally or emotionally for something unpleasant

  Familiarity information: PREPARE FOR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREPARE FOR (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prepare mentally or emotionally for something unpleasant

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

brace oneself for; prepare for; steel oneself against; steel onself for

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 

The new moon of November 26 will help you prepare for an amazing year that is set to start next month on December 2 when good-fortune Jupiter enters Capricorn for the first time in 12 years.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Prepare for your sister-in-law, Eleanor, and such a sister-in-law as you must delight in!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He have prepare for this in some way, and that last earth-box was ready to ship somewheres.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

No, sir, I must prepare for the journey.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We must prepare for the worst.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The housekeeper at Netherfield had received orders to prepare for the arrival of her master, who was coming down in a day or two, to shoot there for several weeks.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

These so-called structure correctors eliminated all the possible signs for Alzheimer's disease, and the researchers are now looking to further improve the compounds to prepare for human testing in the future.

(Alzheimer's Disease Gene Successfully Removed From Human Brain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The serotonin transporter can be difficult to prepare for X-ray crystallography, a technique that creates an image of a protein’s 3-D structure.

(Serotonin transporter structure revealed, NIH)

I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I prepare for the new role I have to play.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Composed of an orbiter and lander, Rosetta's objectives upon arrival at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in August are to study the celestial object up close in unprecedented detail, prepare for landing a probe on the comet's nucleus in November, and track its changes as it sweeps past the sun.

(Rosetta closing in on comet, NASA)