Usually means: Cause to happen suddenly, unexpectedly.
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  1. precipitate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. precipitate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. precipitate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. precipitate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. precipitate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Precipitate, precipitate: Wordnik
  7. precipitate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. precipitate: Wiktionary
  9. precipitate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. precipitate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. precipitate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. precipitate: Dictionary.com
  13. precipitate (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. precipitate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Precipitate (EP), Precipitate (disambiguation), Precipitate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Precipitate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. precipitate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. precipitate: Rhymezone
  19. precipitate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. precipitate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. precipitate: Free Dictionary
  22. precipitate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. precipitate: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. PRECIPITATE: Glossary of Art Terms

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  2. precipitate: Legal dictionary

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  1. precipitate: Encyclopedia

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  3. precipitate: Medical dictionary

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  2. precipitate: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Precipitate: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. precipitate: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. PRECIPITATE: Power Engineering
  4. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
verb:  (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
verb:  (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
verb:  (intransitive) (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
verb:  (transitive) (chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
verb:  (intransitive, meteorology) To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
verb:  (intransitive) To fall headlong.
verb:  (intransitive) To act too hastily; to be precipitous.
adjective:  headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
adjective:  Very steep; precipitous.
adjective:  With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
adjective:  Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
adjective:  Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
noun:  A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
noun:  (chemistry) A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.

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