All make ready synonyms

verb make ready

• practice — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
• modify — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
• habituate — to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
• program — software
• ready — completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use: troops ready for battle; Dinner is ready.
• sharpen — knife: make sharper
• fix — to repair; mend.
• effect — something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
• discharge — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
• cook — When you cook a meal, you prepare food for eating by heating it.
• fulfill — to carry out, or bring to realization, as a prophecy or promise.
• cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
• transact — to carry on or conduct (business, negotiations, activities, etc.) to a conclusion or settlement. Synonyms: enact, conclude, settle, manage, negotiate.
• arrange — If you arrange an event or meeting, you make plans for it to happen.
• cincture — something that encircles or surrounds, esp a belt, girdle, or border
• hem in — to fold back and sew down the edge of (cloth, a garment, etc.); form an edge or border on or around.
• call to arms — a command to report for active military duty.
• call up — If you call someone up, you telephone them.
• set in motion — prompt, cause to begin
• set off — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
• break in — If someone, usually a thief, breaks in, they get into a building by force.
• fill in — a full supply; enough to satisfy want or desire: to eat one's fill.
• take care of — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
• clear the decks — to prepare for action, as by removing obstacles from a field of activity or combat
• make up — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
• fit out — adapted or suited; appropriate: This water isn't fit for drinking. A long-necked giraffe is fit for browsing treetops.
• gear up — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
• get set — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
• let in on — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
• pave the way — be a pioneer
• psych up — to intimidate or frighten psychologically, or make nervous (often followed by out): to psych out the competition.
• put on to — put in touch with
• wise up — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
• zero in — the figure or symbol 0, which in the Arabic notation for numbers stands for the absence of quantity; cipher.
• dry run — a rehearsal or practice exercise.
• run through — an act or instance, or a period of running: a five-minute run before breakfast.
• load up — charge, fill
• iron out — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
• come to terms — to reach acceptance or agreement
• get ready — the state or condition of being ready.
• line up — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
• map out — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
• shape up — the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
• build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
• loosen up — to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
• tone up — any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.: shrill tones.
• warm up — Informal. a warming: Sit by the fire and have a nice warm.
• work over — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.