transitive. To prepare (an article of food or drink) for consumption. to make meat (now regional): to prepare food.

To prepare, make ready for use or for a purpose. To prepare, make ready (food, a meal); to cook; to prepare or mix (a potion or medicine). Obsolete.

transitive. To prepare (food) for cooking or eating; to season or cook (meat, fish, etc.). Now chiefly: to add a sauce to (food, esp. a salad).

To make ready (food). To prepare, ‘dress’. Obsolete.

transitive. To make ready (food, a meal, a drink) for eating or drinking; to cook or assemble (a dish).

To prepare, get up (an eatable). Obsolete.

To dress (food).

transferred. To dress up, to prepare (food). rare.

In wider sense (chiefly U.S. colloquial): To arrange, get ready, put in order; to put to rights, make tidy, ‘rig up’; spec. to prepare (food or…

To cause or enable a person to have (someone or something required); to procure or obtain; to seek… transitive. To prepare (a meal, usually an…

transitive. To coat or cover (a dish) with sauce. Usually in passive.