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Precipitate   /prɪsˈɪpɪtˌeɪt/   Listen
Precipitate

noun
1.
A precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering.
verb
(past & past part. precipitated; pres. part. precipitating)
1.
Bring about abruptly.
2.
Separate as a fine suspension of solid particles.
3.
Fall from clouds.  Synonyms: come down, fall.  "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"
4.
Fall vertically, sharply, or headlong.
5.
Hurl or throw violently.
adjective
1.
Done with very great haste and without due deliberation.  Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitous.  "Hasty makeshifts take the place of planning" , "Rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion" , "Wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"



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"Precipitate" Quotes from Famous Books



... such quick succession that they paused, when but a moment more would have placed them within the inclosure. But several of them being wounded, and Boone and Glenn still doing execution with their pistols, the discomfited enemy made a precipitate retreat. An occasional flight of arrows continued to assail the besieged, but they came from a great distance, for the Indians were not long in scampering beyond the ...
— Wild Western Scenes • John Beauchamp Jones
... So precipitate had been the enemy's flight that they had left everything—food still cooking, all their household and personal utensils; and I saw in the road great piles of kettles, plates, knives, deerskins, beaver-pelts, bearhides, packs of furs, and bolts of ...
— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers
... advanced. Evidently those who carried them were trying to see the party who had given this peremptory command. They could be heard talking together in low and husky tones, some urging a precipitate rush, others counciling caution and diplomacy, in order ...
— Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay - The Disappearing Fleet • G. Harvey Ralphson
... victory of Magenta was the possession of Lombardy. Gyulai, unable to collect his scattered divisions, gave orders for a general retreat. Milan was evacuated with precipitate haste, and the garrisons were withdrawn from all the towns, leaving them to be occupied by the French and Italians. On the 8th of June Napoleon and Victor Emmanuel rode into Milan side by side, amid the loud acclamations of the people, who looked upon this victory as an ...
— A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study - of the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict • Logan Marshall
... possible that at this time Spain would not have taken any action whatever, if William had pursued a different course; and seeing that the colonists had been abandoned and disowned by their own king, as if they had been vagabonds or outlaws, the Spaniards, in a manner, felt themselves invited to precipitate a ...
— An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America • J. P. MacLean


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