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precipitate
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precipitate as in: a precipitate decision

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    The agency recommended against taking precipitate action.
    precipitate = sudden (without adequate thought)
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    Exit Estragon left, precipitately.  (source)
    precipitately = suddenly (acting with great haste)
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    They went with the churches, and you were left with the grey slow dawns and the precipitate nights as the only measurements of time.  (source)
    precipitate = quickly descending (getting dark fast)
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    He was not prone to rashness and precipitate action;  (source)
    precipitate = acting with great haste -- often without adequate thought
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    Yet all these changes were, in one sense, so fantastic and had been made so precipitately that it wasn't easy to regard them as likely to have any permanence.  (source)
    precipitately = with great haste
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    I never see that nice girl without more and more regretting his precipitancy in throwing himself away upon a dairymaid, or whatever she may be.†  (source)
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    His downfall, too, will not be more precipitate than awkward.  (source)
    precipitate = sudden or fast
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    There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind, and as we drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control.  (source)
    precipitately = suddenly
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    "I hope there will be no women besides our own party," Lady Bareacres said, after reflecting upon the invitation which had been made, and accepted with too much precipitancy.†  (source)
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    Crawford had been too precipitate.  (source)
    precipitate = acted too quickly
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    At that Mr. Heelas fled precipitately upstairs, and the rest of the chase is beyond his purview.  (source)
    precipitately = with great haste
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    "I think it beneath the dignity of my office to parley further with the prisoners," the sheriff observer to his companion, while they both retired with a precipitancy that Captain Hollister mistook for the signal to advance.†  (source)
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    It was separate, but part of everything else, suspended grains that would precipitate to the bottom of the beaker when she chose the fatal jar.†  (source)
    precipitate = acting with great haste -- often without adequate thought
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precipitate as in: it precipitated a revolution

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    She expressed concern that withdrawal of UN troops will precipitate chaos and tribal warfare.
    precipitate = cause suddenly
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    She discussed the crisis precipitated by the Russian revolution.
    precipitated = caused suddenly
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    Relentless physical abuse had precipitated most of the deaths.  (source)
    precipitated = caused
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    ...I'd like to know, in your own words, what it was that precipitated that decision.  (source)
    precipitated = suddenly caused
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    The precipitating event is invariably domestic: a dispute with girlfriends or parents.  (source)
    precipitating = triggering (thing that causes something else to suddenly happen)
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    JEAN'S arm deals the OLD GENTLEMAN a sharp knock which precipitates him into the arms of the LOGICIAN.]†  (source)
    precipitates = suddenly causes
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    It's the major source of water here, caught in windtraps and precipitators.†  (source)
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    it is wrong to urge an individual to cease his efforts to gain his basic constitutional rights because the quest may precipitate violence.  (source)
    precipitate = lead to (make it happen quickly)
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    The quarrel was probably precipitated by Amanda's interruption of Tom's creative labor.  (source)
    precipitated = caused (suddenly)
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    Precipitating her way toward the sweet 'crete of the creek bottom like a black angel who has just had the shroud lines of her celestial parachute severed by the Almighty.†  (source)
    Precipitating = making something happen suddenly
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    Pallas obeys, and from Olympus' height Swift to the ships precipitates her flight.†  (source)
    precipitates = suddenly causes
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    The wives and daughters of the Moon Man are the personifications and precipitators of his destiny.†  (source)
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    it was a greater delight slyly to precipitate a fight amongst his mates  (source)
    precipitate = make something happen abruptly
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