Main entry: precipitate
Definition: a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering
Main entry: precipitate
Definition: separate as a fine suspension of solid particles
Main entry: precipitate
Definition: hurl or throw violently
Usage: The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below
Main entry: precipitate
Definition: bring about abruptly
Usage: The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution
Main entry: precipitate
Definition: fall vertically, sharply, or headlong
Usage: Our economy precipitated into complete ruin
Main entry: precipitate, come down, fall
Definition: fall from clouds
Usage: rain, snow and sleet were falling; Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum
Main entry: hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous
Definition: done with very great haste and without due deliberation
Usage: 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