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Meanings of precipitate in English
Catalan
caure Spanish
precipitar Done with very great haste and without due deliberation.
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Usage of precipitate in English
1
A looming liquidity crisis is the reason for fearing a precipitate decision.
2
It might precipitate the very crisis we are so anxious to avoid.
3
When incubation was prolonged a free precipitate was seen in the medium.
4
He had not expected the General to be so blunt and precipitate.
5
This settled the affair: and the discomfited expectants made a precipitate retreat.
6
On the contrary, it would precipitate the worst, it must do so.
7
Never in his orderly life had anything so precipitate happened to him.
8
The precipitate may, if preferred, be placed in a weighted porcelain crucible.
9
Toward the last he did precipitate a slump and sold at sacrifice.
10
The Federal authorities feared to act, lest they should precipitate civil strife.
11
On no account attempt to precipitate or disturb the work of nature.
12
As he did so the gas, bubbling through, made a blackish precipitate.
13
This having been done, the precipitate is immediately filtered off and washed.
14
We must not precipitate ourselves so headlong after our affections and interests.
15
For if you do, you will precipitate the catastrophe that you fear.
16
But he was not the man to fail by being too precipitate.
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