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precipitate
/pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/
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What does precipitate mean?
verb
- 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.
More meanings (13)
verb
- (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
- 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.
noun
- A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
- A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.
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IPA pronunciation
/pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/
Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗Other dictionary pronunciations
/pɹəˈsɪpɪteɪt//pɹɪˈsɪpɪtət//pɹəˈsɪpɪtət/
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The men had been treated with great civility, and could assign no cause for the precipitate flight of the Indians.
He found he had no novice to deal with, and the Brahmin was not at all anxious to precipitate matters.
More book examples (3)
Knowledge of things in that intimate and emotional sense suggested by the word acquaintance is a precipitate from our employing them with a purpose.
Still I quivered in every nerve to think how slight a sinking of the machinery would precipitate that keen, glistening axe upon my bosom.
Then, with precipitate selfconsciousness, he closed the door of his New England heart, and from some remote corner of it sent out his cautious after-thought.