1. [verb] (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.
2. [verb] (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
3. [verb] (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
4. [verb] (intransitive) (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
5. [verb] (transitive) (chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
6. [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.
7. [verb] (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
8. [noun] A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
9. [noun] (chemistry) A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.
10. [adjective] Headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
11. [adjective] Very steep; precipitous.
12. [adjective] With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
13. [adjective] Moving with excessive speed or haste.
14. [adjective] Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
15. [noun] A precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering.
16. [verb] Bring about abruptly; 'The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution'.
17. [verb] Separate as a fine suspension of solid particles.
18. [verb] Fall from clouds; 'rain, snow and sleet were falling'; 'Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum'.
19. [verb] Fall vertically, sharply, or headlong; 'Our economy precipitated into complete ruin'.
20. [verb] Hurl or throw violently; 'The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below'.
21. [adjective] Done with very great haste and without due deliberation; 'hasty marriage seldom proveth well'- Shakespeare; 'hasty makeshifts take the place of planning'- Arthur Geddes; 'rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion'; 'wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king'.
