What is the meaning of precipitate?

noun

• A precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering.

verb

• Bring about abruptly.
  • usage: "The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution"
• Separate as a fine suspension of solid particles.
• Fall from clouds.
  • usage: "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"
  • synonyms: come down, fall
• Fall vertically, sharply, or headlong.
  • usage: "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin"
• Hurl or throw violently.
  • usage: "The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below"

adjective

• Done with very great haste and without due deliberation.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitous