n. 25B6; verb
the incident precipitated a crisis : BRING ABOUT/ON, cause, lead to, give rise to, instigate, trigger, spark, touch off, provoke, hasten, accelerate, expedite.
they were precipitated down the mountain : HURL, catapult, throw, plunge, launch, fling, propel.
25B6; adjective
their actions were precipitate : HASTY, overhasty, rash, hurried, rushed; impetuous, impulsive, spur-of-the-moment, precipitous, incautious, imprudent, injudicious, ill-advised, reckless, harum-scarum; informal previous; poetic/literary temerarious.
a precipitate decline. : See precipitous sense 2.