precipitate

adj : 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}]

n : a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after

settling or filtering

v 1: bring about abruptly: "The crisis precipitated by Russia's

revolution"

2: separate from solution as a fine suspension of solid

particles, in chemistry [syn: {separate from solution}]

3: cause to separate from solution or suspension

4: fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling" [syn:

{come down}, {fall}]

5: fall vertically and sharply

6: fall headlong

7: hurl or throw violently

8: fall abruptly into a different condition