precipitated

verbhurry, speed

Synonyms for precipitated

verb hurry, speed

Antonyms for precipitated

Word Origin & History

"to hurl or fling down," 1520s, a back formation from precipitation or else from Latin praecipitatus, past participle of praecipitare "to throw or dive headlong," from praeceps "steep, headlong, headfirst" (see precipice). Meaning "to cause to happen, hurry the beginning of" is recorded from 1620s. Chemical sense is from 1620s; meteorological sense first attested 1863. Related: Precipitated; precipitating.

Example Sentences for precipitated

Let not your Clarissa be precipitated into a state she wishes not to enter into with any man!

This was on April 24, 1846, and precipitated hostilities at once.

This precipitated a vigorous discussion which extended into the next day.

I have been precipitated, alive, into this hell by another ghost.

For this, Europe, during two centuries, was precipitated on Asia.

So they precipitated their revolution, and have only hastened that inevitable day.

How the salad had precipitated itself downstairs, dish and all.

Immediately the other two precipitated themselves on the weapons.

At last it swung inward, with a suddenness that precipitated me inside the room.

The oxycellulose was precipitated from the filtered solution: yield 45 p.ct.