precipitated
Americanadjective
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having been brought on suddenly or prematurely.
Pressure on the tender spot causes the patient to physically react to the precipitated pain by exclaiming or moving.
Operators are requesting compensation for losses incurred due to the precipitated shutdown of reactors after the accident.
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Chemistry. (of solid material) having been separated from a solution, such as by evaporation or through the use of a reagent.
You can tell the reaction is complete from the purple color of the precipitated sodium chloride.
The precipitated salts give the dry lake bed a white color resembling a beach.
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Meteorology. having fallen as rain, snow, hail, etc..
Most of the precipitated water moves along these defined channels before being discharged into streams.
verb
Other Word Forms
- unprecipitated adjective
Etymology
Origin of precipitated
Example Sentences
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Sicily precipitated the eventual collision between Carthage and Rome.
I don’t know if it’s the trad-wife movement online or what has precipitated this, but my generation was very much splitting the bill.
From Los Angeles Times
The fall of Ben Ali precipitated the resignation of Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.
From BBC
So-called activist short sellers showed a way to profit from stock selloffs they precipitated with the public release of bombshell reports, as in the case of Nikola.
IC: Is there anything specifically that precipitated you being ready?
From Los Angeles Times
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