precipitate

Meaning

Verb

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

Adj

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.

Synonyms

sediment

fall

hasty

hasten

deposit

dregs

settle

precipitant

rash

quicken

expedite

hurry

accelerate

lees

condense

impetuous

precipitous

come down

subside

refuse

violent

slapdash

calces

scale

silt

deposition

previous

precipitation

drop

hurl

cursory

rain

🌧️

hurried

overhasty

helter-skelter

heady

headlong

dispatch

gush

despatch

gravitate

overthrow

flying

clap

👏

activate

overbold

fleet

plunk

pour

liquefy

Translations

precipitar

précipiter

precipitar

précipité

precipitado

precipitoso

υγροποιώ

κατακρημνίζω

ausfällen

stürzen

precipitare

accelerare

condenser

precipitar

επισπεύδω

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/

Etymology

From Latin praecipitātus, perfect passive participle of praecipitō (“throw down, hurl down, throw headlong”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from praeceps (“head foremost, headlong”) (praecipit- in its oblique stem), from prae (“before”) + -ceps (“headed”).