Precipitate

(noun.) a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering.

(verb.) separate as a fine suspension of solid particles.

(verb.) hurl or throw violently; 'The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below'.

(verb.) bring about abruptly; 'The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution'.

(verb.) fall vertically, sharply, or headlong; 'Our economy precipitated into complete ruin'.

(verb.) fall from clouds; 'rain, snow and sleet were falling'; 'Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum'.

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• Miss Bart shrank from it slightly, and then flung herself into precipitate explanations. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The enemy was driven back all day, as we had been the day before, until finally he beat a precipitate retreat. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• But Precedent and Precipitate were, under all circumstances, the well-matched pair of battle-horses of this able Circumlocutionist. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• A man must not be precipitate, or he runs over it; he must not rush into the opposite extreme, or he loses it altogether. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The retreat of the enemy along most of his line was precipitate and the panic so great that Bragg and his officers lost all control over their men. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• You would not call it murder, if you could precipitate me into one of those ice-rifts, and destroy my frame, the work of your own hands. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• I burned with rage to pursue the murderer of my peace, and precipitate him into the ocean. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• To cleanse use well-made brushes, soft quill, or wood toothpicks, an antacid styptic tooth wash, and precipitated chalk. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Attempts were made to send up additional European guards to the Peking legations, but this only precipitated matters. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I would have made a pilgrimage to the highest peak of the Andes, could I, when there, have precipitated him to their base. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• In 1803 his occupation of Switzerland precipitated a crisis,[451] and war broke out again with England. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The revolution which human nature desires to effect step by step in many ages is likely to be precipitated by him in a single year or life. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• This news precipitated me from my self-raised pinnacle of honour. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• This discovery precipitated a revolt of the company's Indian army, the Indian mutiny (1857). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The two party system chokes off the cry of a minority--perhaps the best way there is of precipitating an explosion. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• One of the latest forms of such a collector has for its essential principle the vertical or rotatory air current, which it is claimed moves and precipitates the finest particles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Naturally, the veins themselves are not composed of one substance alone, because several different precipitates may be formed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• That is what precipitates violence, that is what renders social co-operation impossible, that is what makes catastrophes the method of change. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Every particle of water assumes as many of salt as can adhere to it; when more is added, it precipitates, and will not remain suspended. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• When too much is added, it precipitates in rain. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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