All 4 Uses of
precipitate
in
The War of the Worlds
- I did not know even the circumstances that had precipitated the conflict.†
Chpt 1.10 (definition 1) *
- The gun he drove had been unlimbered near Horsell, in order to command the sand pits, and its arrival it was that had precipitated the action.†
Chpt 1.11 (definition 1)
- We talked in this manner through the early morning time, and later crept out of the bushes, and, after scanning the sky for Martians, hurried precipitately to the house on Putney Hill where he had made his lair.†
Chpt 2.7 (definition 2)
- But now that I was beginning to understand something of his quality, I could divine the stress he laid on doing nothing precipitately.
Chpt 2.7 (definition 2) *precipitately = with great haste
Definitions:
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(1) (precipitate as in: it precipitated a revolution) make something happen or to fall or move -- typically suddenly and often of something undesired
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(2) (precipitate as in: a precipitate decision) acting with great haste -- often without adequate thought