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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
Noun
- a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering
Verb
- hurl or throw violently
- The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below
- fall vertically, sharply, or headlong
- Our economy precipitated into complete ruin
- fall from clouds
- rain, snow and sleet were falling
- Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum
- separate as a fine suspension of solid particles
- bring about abruptly
- The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution