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foreready

foreready verb: to make ready ahead of time; prepare in advance.

Verb

foreready (third-person singular simple present forereadies, present participle forereadying, simple past and past participle forereadied)

  1. (nonstandard, rare, transitive) To make ready ahead of time; prepare in advance.
    • Plainly, he had forereadied them. I thought more of him for that, not less, having had many hours of my life wasted by lackwits unprepared for the audiences they had gained with me.2010, H. N. Turteltaub, Justinian
  2. (intransitive, nonstandard, rare) To become ready; to prepare oneself.
    • If l am a lifemaster l have the same "right" to a museum as these other men & have a full right to foreready for it while l am alive.1995, Percy Grainger's Gift to the Land of His Birth

Forms of foreready

third-person singular presentforereadies
present participleforereadying
past participleforereadied
pastforereadied

Origin of foreready

From fore- + ready. Compare Dutch voorbereiden.

Questions about foreready

What does foreready mean?
Foreready means to make ready ahead of time; prepare in advance.
What part of speech is foreready?
Foreready is a verb.
What is the past tense of foreready?
The past tense of foreready is forereadied.

Words near foreready in the dictionary

  1. forereaches
  2. forereaching
  3. foreread
  4. forereading
  5. forereads
  6. foreready
  7. forerecited
  8. forereckon
  9. forereckoning
  10. forereef
  11. forereefs

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