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Adjective precipitate has 1 sense
- hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous - done with very great haste 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"
Antonym: unhurried (indirect, via hurried)
Noun precipitate has 1 sense
- precipitate - a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering
--1 is a kind of solid
--1 has particulars: sludge
Verb precipitate has 5 senses
- precipitate - separate as a fine suspension of solid particles
--1 is one way to change state, turn
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- precipitate - bring about abruptly; "The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution"
--2 is one way to effect, effectuate, bring about, set up
Sample sentences:
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Something ----s something
- precipitate, come down, fall - fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"
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- precipitate - fall vertically, sharply, or headlong; "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin"
--4 is one way to descend, fall, go down, come down
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- precipitate - hurl or throw violently; "The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below"
--5 is one way to hurl, hurtle, cast
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Somebody ----s something
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