precipitating

Describes something that causes an event or situation to happen suddenly or sooner than expected.

• 🇵🇹Descreve aquilo que provoca ou acelera um evento ou situação, fazendo com que ocorra de forma repentina ou antes do esperado.

1. Causing something to happen suddenly C1 formal

   Describes something that brings about an event or situation abruptly or unexpectedly.

   • The precipitating factor for the crisis was the sudden drop in stock prices.
   • His careless remark was the precipitating event that led to the argument.
   • The heavy rain was the precipitating cause of the landslide.

   🇵🇹Que causa algo repentinamente

   Sinônimos: inducingpromptingprovoking

   Antônimos: forestalling

• more precipitating comparative form
• most precipitating superlative form

A verb used to indicate the act of causing something to happen suddenly or sooner than expected, or to cause a substance to separate from a solution.

• 🇵🇹Verbo usado para indicar a ação de fazer algo acontecer de forma repentina ou antes do esperado, ou de provocar a separação de uma substância de uma solução.

1. Cause to happen suddenly C1 formal

   To cause something to happen suddenly or sooner than expected.

   • The economic crisis was precipitated by the bank failures.
   • His reckless actions precipitated a disaster.
   • The argument precipitated their sudden departure.

   🇵🇹Precipitar

   Sinônimos: acceleratebring aboutexpeditehasteninduceoccasionprovoketrigger

   Antônimos: deferdelayforestallpostpone

2. Separate from solution C1 formal scientific

   To cause a solid substance to be separated from a liquid solution.

   • Adding salt to the solution will precipitate the crystals.
   • The chemist observed the compound precipitate out of the mixture.
   • Cooling the liquid rapidly can precipitate the dissolved minerals.

   🇵🇹Precipitar

   Sinônimos: depositsediment

• precipitated past participle
• precipitated past simple
• precipitating present participle
• precipitates third person singular