precipitate

precipitate
v
1. accelerate, quicken, push forward, advance, hasten; stimulate, arouse, trigger, rouse, animate, vivify, bestir; instigate, motivate, inspire, exhort, excite, provoke, incite; press, prod, shove, jog, move, drive on, urge on, egg on, hound on, goad, whip, flog, prick; boost, prompt, thrust, impel, give an impetus to; hurry on, dispatch, expedite, facilitate; aid, assist, help.
2. throw, hurl headlong, cast headlong, fling; heave, project, jaculate, propel; chuck, pitch, shy; discharge, shoot, launch, let fly, send forth.
3. snow, rain, drizzle, sleet, pour, Chiefly Dial. mizzle, mist.
adj
4. headlong, hurried, rushed, hasty; rapid, meteoric, quick, expeditious, speedy, swift, fleet; pressing, pushing, urgent.
5. abrupt, sudden, unexpected, at the spur of the moment, without warning, unannounced, unforeseen, unanticipated; prompt, instant, instantaneous, immediate.
6. unduly quick, rash, hasty; reckless, careless, heedless, thoughtless, pell-mell, helter-skelter, harum-scarum, head over heels; brash, incautious, injudicious, ill-advised, indiscreet, unwary, foolish; impetuous, impulsive, unrestrained, ungoverned, uncontrolled, unchecked, unbridled; feverish, impatient, frantic, impassioned; madcap, madbrained, foolhardy, daredevil, breakneck, adventurous, hot-headed, harebrained, blindfolded; volatile, flighty, frivolous, erratic, fickle, unreliable, irresponsible; wild, giddy, dashing, ever-confident, rampant, quixotic, punch-drunk; death-defying, devil-may-care, dangerous, ruinous, perilous.
n
7. snow, rain, drizzle, sleet, downpour, cloudburst, deluge, ice storm, blizzard.

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