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Meaning of precipitate

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  precipitate
      adj 1: 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" [syn: {hasty},
             {overhasty}, {precipitate}, {precipitant}, {precipitous}]
      n 1: a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after
           settling or filtering
      v 1: bring about abruptly; "The crisis precipitated by Russia's
           revolution"
      2: separate as a fine suspension of solid particles
      3: fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling";
         "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on
         Herculaneum" [syn: {precipitate}, {come down}, {fall}]
      4: fall vertically, sharply, or headlong; "Our economy
         precipitated into complete ruin"
      5: hurl or throw violently; "The bridge broke and precipitated
         the train into the river below"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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