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precipitate:

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Verb

precipitate (third-person singular simple present precipitates, present participle precipitating, simple past and past participle precipitated)

  1. (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly. synonyms ▲quotations ▼Synonyms: advance, accelerate, hasten, speed up

to precipitate a journey, or a conflict

it precipitated their success

  1. (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height. synonyms ▲quotations ▼Synonyms: throw, fling, cast; see also Thesaurus:throw
  2. (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.

we were precipitated into a conflict

  1. (intransitive) (*chemistry*) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.

Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate.

  1. (transitive) (*chemistry*) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
  2. (intransitive, meteorology) To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets. troponyms ▼

It will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow.

  1. (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground. quotations ▼
  2. (intransitive) To fall headlong.
  3. (intransitive) To act too hastily; to be precipitous.
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show ▼±to make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten

show ▼±to throw an object or person from a great height

show ▼±to send violently into a certain state or condition

show ▼±to come out of a liquid solution into solid form

show ▼±to separate out of a liquid solution into solid form

show ▼±to have water in the air fall to the ground