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readyingverbpresent participle of ready to make competent (as by training, skill, or ability) for a particular office or functionthis advanced course should ready him for college equipping, fitting, preparing, qualifying, seasoning, training accustoming, adapting, adjusting, conditioning, grooming, habituating, shaping, tailoringauthorizing, entitlingempowering, enablingeducating, indoctrinating, instructing, schooling, teaching, tutoring to make ready in advancewe can ready the desserts for the party a day in advance fitting, fixing, grooming, laying, preparing, prepping bracing, fortifying, girding, steelingbattening, gathering, gearing up, mountingeducating, indoctrinating, instructing, schooling, training, tutoringbooting (up), primingarranging, setting, spreadingarming, equipping, forearming, furnishing, outfitting, providing, supplyinginclining, predisposingdrafting, drawing up, framingwarming (up) to prepare (oneself) mentally or emotionallythe basketball players sat quietly in the locker room, readying themselves for the final game of the season bracing, forearming, fortifying, nerving, poising, psyching (up), steeling, strengthening arminghardening, inuring, seasoning, tougheningbolstering, boosting, buoying (up), buttressing, enforcing, propping (up), reinforcing(also reenforcing), supporting, sustainingcheering (up), comforting, emboldening, encouraging, heartening, inspiringrallying, rousing, stirring daunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, psyching (out), shaking, unnervingdebilitating, enervating, enfeebling, prostrating, sapping, softening, tiring, undercutting, undermining, weakening |