How to say "precipitate" in Japanese

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  • 早めるはやめるJLPT N1approx.Common
    ichidan verb, transitive verbCovers the verb sense: to hasten, expedite, or bring something forward, as in hastening someone's death or moving a schedule up. The common word for 'precipitate' as a verb.
    その薬くすりが成長せいちょうの過程かていを早はやめた。↗
    The medicine hastened the process of growth.
  • 沈殿物ちんでんぶつ
    nounCovers the noun sense: a precipitate is the solid that settles out of a solution, and this word also means sediment, deposit, or sludge — matter that has settled at the bottom.
  • 倉卒そうそつ
    na-adjective, nounCovers the adjective sense: 'precipitate' meaning hasty or rash, done suddenly and without careful thought. A formal, literary term, and a less common one — seldom the word a learner needs for this idea.

Use 「早める」 for the verb sense 'to hasten or expedite', 沈殿物 for the noun meaning solid deposit from a solution, and 倉卒, a formal literary adjective, for 'hasty or rash'.

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