Origin: Latin suffix -ate
Precipitate has 10 different meanings across 3 categories:
a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering
a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action
separate as a fine suspension of solid particles
fall from clouds
"rain, snow and sleet were falling"
"Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"
hurl or throw violently
"The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below"
To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
done with very great haste and without due deliberation
"hasty marriage seldom proveth well"
"hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"
"rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"
"wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
headlong; falling steeply or vertically.