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precipitate

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Verb

  1. To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
  2. To throw an object or person from a great height.
  3. To send violently into a certain state or condition.
  4. (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
  5. (chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
  6. To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.
  7. To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
  8. To fall headlong.
  9. To act too hastily; to be precipitous.

Adjective

  1. headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
  2. Very steep; precipitous.
  3. With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
  4. Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
  5. Performed very rapidly or abruptly.

Noun

  1. A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
  2. A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.

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