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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
precipitate
a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
solid
• Hyponyms:
sludge
1. bring about abruptly (Freq. 4)
- The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution
• Derivationally related forms:
precipitant, precipitation
• Hypernyms:
effect, effectuate, set up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. separate as a fine suspension of solid particles (Freq. 4)
• Derivationally related forms:
precipitation, precipitant, precipitator
• Hypernyms:
change state, turn
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
3. fall from clouds
- rain, snow and sleet were falling
- Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum
• Syn:
come down, fall
• Derivationally related forms:
precipitation
• Hyponyms:
rain, rain down, spat, snow, hail, sleet
• Verb Group:
fall
• Entailment:
condense, distill, distil
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s something
4. fall vertically, sharply, or headlong
- Our economy precipitated into complete ruin
• Derivationally related forms:
precipitation
• Hypernyms:
descend, fall, go down, come down
• Verb Frames:
- Something is ----ing PP
- Somebody ----s PP
5. hurl or throw violently
- The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below
• Derivationally related forms:
precipitation
• Hypernyms:
hurl, hurtle, cast
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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
• Syn:
hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitous
• Similar to:
hurried
• Derivationally related forms:
precipitousness (for: precipitous), precipitance (for: precipitant), precipitancy (for: precipitant), precipitate (for: precipitant), precipitateness, haste (for: hasty), hastiness (for: hasty)
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