GEAR UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gear up mean? 

• GEAR UP (verb)
  The verb GEAR UP has 1 sense:

1. make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc

  Familiarity information: GEAR UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEAR UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

fix; gear up; prepare; ready; set; set up

Context example:

I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill

Hypernyms (to "gear up" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "gear up"):

socialise; socialize (prepare for social life)

provide (take measures in preparation for)

cram (prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam)

precondition (put into the required condition beforehand)

fix (kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study)

mount (fix onto a backing, setting, or support)

lay out; set; set up (get ready for a particular purpose or event)

winterise; winterize (prepare for winter)

summerise; summerize (prepare for summer)

prime (insert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing)

crop; cultivate; work (prepare for crops)

brace; poise (prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE