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PRECIPITATING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bringing on suddenly or abruptly
Example:
the completion of the railroad was the precipitating cause in the extinction of waterborne commerce
Classified under:
Similar:
causative (producing an effect)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb precipitate
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