precipitate
verb (used with object)
to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly.
were precipitating
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past progressiveof precipitate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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This was at the time the view of most others in the North, perhaps in the South, for Southerners spoke frequently of the “revolution” they were precipitating.
From Expansion and Conflict by William E. Dodd
The direct causes which were precipitating the crisis in the closing eighteenth century were financial and economic, while the contributing causes were a remarkable intellectual movement and the War of Independence in America.
From A Short History of France by Mary Platt Parmele
"See! that forest looks as though it were precipitating itself upon us!"
From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
The breathless walking and the angry agitation were precipitating the fever that was already upon me.
From Willing to Die by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
