precipitating

Verb

precipitate (third-person singular simple present precipitates, present participle precipitating, simple past and past participle precipitated)

1. (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
   • to precipitate a journey, or a conflict

   Synonyms:

   advance, accelerate, hasten, speed up

2. (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
   • In gallopping heedlessly along, with her eyes turned upwards, she had unwarily approached too near the bank; it had given way with her, and she and her horse had been precipitated to the pebbled margin of the river.1822 May 21, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Hawking”, in Bracebridge Hall, or The Humourists. A Medley. […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: […] C. S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 182

   Synonyms:

   throw, fling, cast, bung, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck

3. (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
   • we were precipitated into a conflict
4. (intransitive) (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
   • Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate.
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.
   • It will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow.

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