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(verb) cause to separate from solution or suspension |
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Related Words: separate |
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(verb) fall abruptly into a different condition |
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Related Words: fall |
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(verb) separate from solution as a fine suspension of solid particles, in chemistry |
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Synonyms: separate from solution |
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Related Words: change state, turn |
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(verb) hurl or throw violently |
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Related Words: cast, hurl, hurtle |
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(verb) bring about abruptly: "The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution" |
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Related Words: bring about, effect, effectuate, set up |
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(verb) fall headlong |
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Related Words: come down, descend, fall, go down |
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(verb) fall vertically and sharply |
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Related Words: drop |
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(verb) fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling" |
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Synonyms: come down, fall |
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Related Words: hail, rain, rain down, sleet, snow, spat |
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(noun) a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering |
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Related Words: sludge, solid |
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(satellite 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" |
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Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitant |
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