2. (verb)hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous done with very greathaste and without due deliberation "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
3. (verb)precipitate bring about abruptly "The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution"
5. (verb)precipitate, come down, fall fall from clouds "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"
6. (verb)precipitate fall vertically, sharply, or headlong "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin"
7. (verb)precipitate hurl or throw violently "The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below"
Definitions of 'precipitate'
Webster Dictionary
1. (adj)precipitate overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war
8. (verb)precipitate to separate from a solution, or other medium, in the form of a precipitate; as, water precipitates camphor when in solution with alcohol
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