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Precipitate

  1. adjective

    done with very great haste and without due deliberation; - Shakespeare; - Arthur Geddes

    hasty marriage seldom proveth well

    Similar: hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitous

  2. noun

    a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering

  3. verb

    separate as a fine suspension of solid particles

  4. verb

    fall vertically, sharply, or headlong

    Our economy precipitated into complete ruin