precipitate
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Definitions ofprecipitate
- To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
Synonyms: accelerate, advance, hasten, "speed up"
Example: "it precipitated their success"
- To throw an object or person from a great height.
- To send violently into a certain state or condition.
Example: "we were precipitated into a conflict"
- To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
Example: "Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate."
- To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.
Example: "It will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow."
- To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
- To fall headlong.
- To act too hastily; to be precipitous.
- Headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
Synonyms: headlong, precipitant, precipitous
- Very steep; precipitous.
Synonyms: brant
- With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
- Moving with excessive speed or haste.
Example: "The king was too precipitate in declaring war."
- Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
Synonyms: abrupt, precipitous, subitaneous
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