precipitate
Plural: precipitates
Noun
- a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering
- A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
- A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.
Verb
- bring about abruptly
- "The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution"
- separate as a fine suspension of solid particles
- fall from clouds
- "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"
- fall vertically, sharply, or headlong
- "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin"
- hurl or throw violently
- "The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below"
- To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
- To throw an object or person from a great height.
- To send violently into a certain state or condition.
- (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- (chemistry) 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.
- To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
- To fall headlong.
- To act too hastily; to be precipitous.
Adjective Satellite
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation; - Shakespeare; - Arthur Geddes
- "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
Adj
- headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
- Very steep; precipitous.
- With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
- Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
- Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
Examples
- a precipitate case of disease
- Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate.
- Back to his sight precipitates her steps.
- it precipitated their success
- It will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow.
- The king was too precipitate in declaring war.
- to precipitate a journey, or a conflict
- we were precipitated into a conflict
Origin / Etymology
From Latin praecipitātus, perfect passive participle of praecipitō (“throw down, hurl down, throw headlong”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from praeceps (“head foremost, headlong”) (praecipit- in its oblique stem), from prae (“before”) + -ceps (“headed”).
Synonyms
come down, fall, hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitous, abrupt, accelerate, advance, brant, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, daring, dash, devil-may-care, dump, feck, fling, hasten, headlong, headstrong, heave, heedless, hield, hotheaded, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, impetuous, imprudent, impulsive, jerk, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quick-and-dirty, quoit, rash, reckless, shy, skew, slight, sling, speed up, spontaneous, subitaneous, sudden, suddent, temeritous, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing
Scrabble Score: 17
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