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precipitated
[ pri-sip-i-tey-tid ]
adjective
- having been brought on suddenly or prematurely:
Pressure on the tender spot causes the patient to physically react to the precipitated pain by exclaiming or moving.
Operators are requesting compensation for losses incurred due to the precipitated shutdown of reactors after the accident.
- Chemistry. (of solid material) having been separated from a solution, such as by evaporation or through the use of a reagent:
You can tell the reaction is complete from the purple color of the precipitated sodium chloride.
The precipitated salts give the dry lake bed a white color resembling a beach.
- Meteorology. having fallen as rain, snow, hail, etc.:
Most of the precipitated water moves along these defined channels before being discharged into streams.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of precipitate ( def ).
Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲ····ٲ· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of precipitated1
Example Sentences
Anyone with eyes to see knows that the world economy is in a serious crisis precipitated by Trump and Trump alone.
This precipitated a free-for-all, with the public helping themselves to the remnants.
The break seemed like a reasonable metaphor for our fractured times: The cable had snapped during an oceanic landslide precipitated by huge floods in the Congo River.
It was in 2020 when the George Floyd protests and the Black Lives Matter movement galvanized the whole planet and precipitated efforts to ramp up DEI programs across society that the backlash began in earnest.
But at high doses it also triggers a wave of miserable symptoms collectively called precipitated withdrawal.
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