precipitate

/pษนษ™หˆsษชpษชteษชt/

IPA: /P R IH0 S IH1 P IH0 T EY0 T/

verb
  1. 1

    To make something happen suddenly and quickly.

    โ€œit precipitated their successโ€

  2. 2

    To throw an object or person from a great height.

  3. 3

    To send violently into a certain state or condition.

    โ€œwe were precipitated into a conflictโ€

  4. 4

    To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.

    โ€œAdding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate.โ€

  5. 5

    To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.

  6. 6

    To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.

    โ€œIt will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow.โ€

  7. 7

    To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.

  8. 8

    To fall headlong.

  9. 9

    To act too hastily; to be precipitous.

adjective
  1. 1

    Headlong; falling steeply or vertically.

  2. 2

    Very steep; precipitous.

    syn:brant
  3. 3

    With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.

  4. 4

    Moving with excessive speed or haste.

    โ€œThe king was too precipitate in declaring war.โ€

  5. 5

    Performed very rapidly or abruptly.

noun
  1. 1

    A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action

  2. 2

    A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/precipitate