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List of meaning for precipitate

to bring about especially abruptly

precipitate(adj)

a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering

hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous(verb)

done with very great haste and without due deliberation

"hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"

precipitate(verb)

bring about abruptly

"The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution"

precipitate(verb)

separate as a fine suspension of solid particles

precipitate, come down, fall(verb)

fall from clouds

"rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"

precipitate(verb)

fall vertically, sharply, or headlong

"Our economy precipitated into complete ruin"

precipitate(verb)

hurl or throw violently

"The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below"

acting or done with excessive or careless speed

the army's precipitate withdrawal from the field of battle

a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause

the exodus from the cities was an unexpected precipitate of the automobile, which effectively shrank distances

matter that settles to the bottom of a body of liquid

the chemist filtered out the precipitate from the solution

to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds

the air mass was dry, as much of the moisture had precipitated out on the other side of the mountains

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