0 past simple and past 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:
The second possibility is that a subclinical degree of tricuspid regurgitation led to hypertrophy and dilatation of the left atrium and precipitated atrial fibrillation.
The latter group of critiques has precipitated a general dismissal of family influences as immaterial except, possibly, at the extremes.
Some pundits charged that the military's complete decay, especially the cowardice and incompetence of its commanders, had precipitated the debacle of 1847.
Seventeenth-century notions of property, among other things, precipitated this development.
Their easy production announced a gracious and fertile imagination, which sometimes precipitated them toward error.
Both of these evaporite minerals have a high solubility and can be readily precipitated, and as such they are ideal candidates for laboratory experiments.
There have been no prosecutions or investigations of individuals that have precipitated or instigated the violence.
The whole system is alkaline, and carbonate can be easily precipitated during dry spells, when there is excess evaporation.
