0 present participle of precipitate
1 to make something happen suddenly or sooner than expected:
2 to throw someone or something from a height with great force
3 If a liquid precipitates, substances in it become solid and separate from the liquid:
Existing explanations of domestic structural change focus on the role crises play in precipitating radical or episodic change.
Precipitating factors for delirium in hospitalized elderly persons.
Predisposing and precipitating factors for delirium in hospitalized older patients.
It is based on a model that distinguishes between precipitating and perpetuating factors, with the perpetuating factors becoming the focus of the intervention.
No precipitating antibodies were detected in either sheep or rabbits.
Some recent works dispute the key role of communal cotton in precipitating the uprising.
The aetiology of post-traumatic morbidity : predisposing, precipitating and perpetuating factor.
They warn that youth employment is par t of a syndrome of "precocious development," precipitating a hastened transition to adulthood.
