PRECIPITATED Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

precipitated

verb

past tense of precipitate

as in poured

to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds the air mass was dry, as much of the moisture had precipitated out on the other side of the mountains

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Recent Examples of precipitated Their letter precipitated the launch of the Manhattan Project and, six years later, the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. — Michael Posner, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Rethink Trade director Lori Wallach cautioned against viewing the first-half 2025-to-2026 contraction in the deficit as an all-out win, given that there were special circumstances that precipitated it. — Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 6 Aug. 2026 Investigators are probing their relationship to the victim and what precipitated the attack. — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026 Several books about the coal wars have gone on to be published, and journalist Robert Shogan’s The Battle of Blair Mountain (2004) is considered a major secondary source on the events that precipitated the conflict. — Elijah Tanall, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026 Still, no punches thrown from his direction on the way out, beyond the social-media trail that seemingly precipitated the Friday fracas with Adebayo. — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2026 Grave loss in Canada precipitated the Declaration of Independence, created with an eye to France and Spain as allies. — Sarah M.s. Pearsall, The Conversation, 2 July 2026 Today, the life expectancy has more than doubled, from 35 to 79 years, and Washington would likely be treated with antibiotics, rather than bloodletting, for the throat infection that precipitated his death. — Stephanie Stephens, USA Today, 26 June 2026 The 2002 crash, which was caught on camera and precipitated the Forest Service’s reckoning and its modern airworthiness program, was caused by unidentified wing cracking. — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 9 June 2026

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The great Dolly Parton died earlier this week and tributes have poured in from across the country.

— The NPR Network, NPR, 29 Aug. 2026
Gabby Williams poured in 16 on four made three-pointers and Tiffany Hayes led the bench unit with 12 points.

— Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of poured

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Freedom responded and stepped toward the floor, prompting security to intervene and usher the 11-year NBA veteran out as the Chicago crowd rained down boos.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
So, Stop Sales rained down on mozzarella cheese, roasted onions, roasted garlic, roasted mushrooms (72 degrees) and Alfredo sauce (70 degrees).

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of rained

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Meta is rolling out an obvious fix to make its AI glasses less creepy amid backlash over the glasses’ non-consensual recordings that have flooded the Internet.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2026
But New Yorkers flooded social media after news broke, and eventually a petition was made in an effort to save the theater.

— Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of flooded

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Young people armed with machetes stormed the site of the funeral, forcing the team to flee and injuring one member, a representative told the Associated Press.

— Constant Same Bagalwa, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
Jerusalem — Israeli settlers stormed a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank on Saturday and seized a home while its owner was inside in the latest brazen settler attack in the area.

— Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026

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