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How to pronounce precipitate in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms come down, fall
Has types spat, snow, rain down, sleet, hail, rain
Verb group fall
Derivation precipitation


Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum.
Type Words
Synonyms hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitous
Derivation precipitateness


wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king.
Type Words
Type of solid
Has types sludge
Type Words
Type of effect, set up, effectuate
Derivation precipitant, precipitation


The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution.
Type Words
Type of descend, come down, fall, go down
Derivation precipitation


Our economy precipitated into complete ruin.
Type Words
Type of cast, hurl, hurtle
Derivation precipitation


The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below.
Type Words
Type of turn, change state
Derivation precipitator, precipitant, precipitation

Examples of precipitate

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The United States does not need to take any such actions on a precipitate basis.
From the economix.blogs.nytimes.com
That would strengthen Mr Gauci's argument-and precipitate a showdown down under.
From the economist.com
Crystals precipitate out of the saturated solution and stuck to the paper clips.
From the desmoinesregister.com
Eager not to appear perfunctory or precipitate, the board delayed still further.
From the time.com
Shortsighted interest and small selfishness simply precipitate the catastrophe.
From the stltoday.com
Could short sellers actually precipitate the housing collapse by their actions?
From the economist.com
For the moment, every economic action seems to precipitate a negative reaction.
From the omaha.com
Zinc is to precipitate out residual zinc as well as the silver and gold metals.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The precipitate afforded by potassium cadmium iodide solution is crystalline, mp.
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More examples
  • A precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering
  • Bring about abruptly; "The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution"
  • Hasty: 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 ...
  • Separate as a fine suspension of solid particles
  • Fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"
  • Fall vertically, sharply, or headlong; "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin"
  • Precipitation is the formation of a solid in a solution or inside another solid during a chemical reaction or by diffusion in a solid. When the reaction occurs in a liquid, the solid formed is called the precipitate, or when compacted by a centrifuge, a pellet. ...
  • The following is a list of episodes from the USA Network original series The Dead Zone. The series debuted on June 16, 2002.
  • Precipitate is the name of an EP by New York City based Indie rock band Interpol. It features two tracks not on albums "Precipitate" and "Song Seven" (although "Precipitate" is on another EP, Fukd ID #3). ...