English-Danish translations for precipitate

• bundfald
• overilet
  Han har formået at modstå et pres om at handle overilet. He has managed to resist the pressure on him to act precipitately.
  Men overilet handling i forbindelse med lukninger skal undgås. But precipitate action by the Community on closures must be avoided.
  Nu ser vi, at De, måske noget overilet, ensidigt har tilbudt at skære toldsatserne ned med endnu en stor procentdel. Now we find that you have, maybe somewhat precipitately, made a unilateral offer to slice those tariffs by a further massive percentage.

Definition of precipitate

• To make something happen suddenly and quickly
• To throw an object or person from a great height
• To send violently into a certain state or condition
• To come out of a liquid solution into solid form
• To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form
• To cause to condense or fall to the ground
• To fall headlong
• headlong; falling steeply or vertically
• Very steep; precipitous
• With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong
• Moving with excessive speed or haste
• Performed very rapidly or abruptly
• a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action

Examples

• to precipitate a journey, or a conflict
• it precipitated their success
• we were precipitated into a conflict
• Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate
• It will precipitate tomorrow, but we dont know whether as rain or snow
• The king was too precipitate in declaring war
• a precipitate case of disease

Related words

• precipitation
• reprecipitation
• precipitately
• immunoprecipitation
• coprecipitate
• precipitative
• electroprecipitator
• precipitation hardening
• precipitation reaction