Verb

• S: (v) socialize, socialise (take part in social activities; interact with others) "He never socializes with his colleagues"; "The old man hates to socialize"
• S: (v) socialize, socialise (train for a social environment) "The children must be properly socialized"
• S: (v) socialize, socialise (prepare for social life) "Children have to be socialized in school"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set (make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc) "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"
• S: (v) socialize, socialise (prepare for social life) "Children have to be socialized in school"
• S: (v) provide (take measures in preparation for) "provide for the proper care of the passengers on the cruise ship"
• S: (v) cram (prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam)
• S: (v) precondition (put into the required condition beforehand)
• S: (v) fix (kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study)
• S: (v) mount (fix onto a backing, setting, or support) "mount slides for macroscopic analysis"
• S: (v) set up, lay out, set (get ready for a particular purpose or event) "set up an experiment"; "set the table"; "lay out the tools for the surgery"
• S: (v) winterize, winterise (prepare for winter) "winterize cars"; "winterize your houses"
• S: (v) summerize, summerise (prepare for summer) "summerize your car"; "summerize a house"
• S: (v) prime (insert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing) "prime a cannon"; "prime a mine"
• S: (v) cultivate, crop, work (prepare for crops) "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"
• S: (v) brace, poise (prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult)
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) socialize, socialise (make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies) "Health care should be socialized!"