precipitate

1. (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.Examples: "to precipitate a journey, or a conflict"; "it precipitated their success"; "if they be stout and daring, it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous"Synonyms: advance, accelerate, hasten, speed up

2. (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.Examples: "In gallopping heedlessly along, with her eyes turned upwards, she had unwarily approached too near the bank; it had given way with her, and she and her horse had been precipitated to the pebbled margin of the river."Synonyms: throw, fling, cast, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook

3. (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.Examples: "we were precipitated into a conflict"

4. (intransitive) (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.Examples: "Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate."

5. (transitive) (chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.

6. (intransitive, meteorology) To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.Examples: "It will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow."