Precipitate

Verb

 * 1)  To make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.
 * 2)  To throw an object or person from a great height.
 * 3)  To send violently into a certain state or condition.
 * 4)  To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
 * 5)  To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
 * 6)  To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.

Noun

 * 1) A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
 * 2)  A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.

Adjective

 * 1) headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
 * 2) Very steep; precipitous.
 * 3) With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
 * 4) Moving with excessive speed or haste.
 * 5) Performed very rapidly or abruptly.

Thesaurus
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Pronunciation






Etymology 1
From praecipito: < praeceps: < prae: + caput:.

Etymology 2
From praecipitatum:

Etymology 3
From praecipitatus:

Derived terms

 * precipitated
 * precipitator
 * precipitately
 * precipitateness

Related terms

 * precipice
 * precipitation
 * precipitous

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 加速, 突然引發, 突然引发 (tūrán yǐnfā)


 * Finnish:, , ,


 * Finnish: ,


 * Greek: κατακρημνίζω


 * Finnish:


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 * Finnish: saostaa


 * Finnish:

Noun

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Adjective

 * Finnish: kohtisuora, äkkijyrkkä, syöksyvä


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: hätiköity


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: hätiköity

Anagrams

 * peripatetic, Peripatetic

Adjective
precipitate



Verb
precipitate


 * 1) second-person plural present tense of precipitare
 * 2) second-person plural imperative of precipitare
 * 3) feminine plural past participle of precipitare