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Prepare vs Preprepared - What's the difference?

prepare | preprepared |

As verbs the difference between prepare and preprepared

is that prepare is while preprepared is (preprepare).

As an adjective preprepared is

prepared in advance.

prepare

English

Verb

(prepar)
  • To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble.
  • * Bible, Psalms cvii. 36
    • that they may prepare a city for habitation
  • * Dryden
    • our souls, not yet prepared for upper light
  • To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook.
  • To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=19 citation , passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}
  • To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.

    • Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that can take a following verb in its to + infinitive form. See

    Synonyms

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)

    Noun

  • (obsolete) preparation
  • * 1595 , , IV. i. 130:
    • Go levy men, and make prepare for war;

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    preprepared

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (preprepare)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • prepared in advance

    • preprepare

    English

    Verb

    (preprepar)
  • To prepare in advance.
  • *1850 , (Millard Fillmore), Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress :
  • *:some stone[s] were pre-prepared , and also the wood-work of a coffer dam, but, as before stated, work on the shoal was not commenced.
  • *2007 , Sarah Murray, Moveable Feasts , p. 98:
  • *:In the UK, too, consumers happily tuck in to 400,000 tons of preprepared meals a year.
  • * 2008 , Andrew H. Feinstein, John M. Stefanelli, Purchasing: Selection and Procurement for the Hospitality Industry (page 516)
    • Operators should try to avoid the temptation of prepreparing the snapper and then storing the portions in a freezer.