Clean
Prepare
Prepare verb - To make ready in advance.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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When an idea for one comes along, if she doesn't knock it into shape and put it out there, 'I get sick.' Captain Obvious: 'A kitchen is a place where you prepare and clean up!
Source: Music / Throwing Muses - When Krabs finds out, they prepare for the worst, but then Krabs simply licks the dollar clean.
Source: Milholland Relationship Moment - Simon volunteers to... clean up the dead and prepare them for a Burial in Space, specifically saying that bodies don't bother him (he was a trauma surgeon before coming to Serenity).
Source: Nausea Dissonance
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