giddy vs precipitate

giddy

adj
  • Moving around something or spinning rapidly. 

  • Joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness. 

  • Causing or likely to cause dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness. 

  • Unable to concentrate or think seriously; easily excited; impulsive; also, lightheartedly silly; frivolous. 

  • Feeling great anger; furious, raging. 

  • Of an animal, chiefly a sheep: affected by gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”), which may result in the animal turning around aimlessly. 

  • Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy. 

verb
  • To make (someone or something) dizzy or unsteady; to dizzy. 

  • To become dizzy or unsteady. 

precipitate

adj
  • Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty. 

  • With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong. 

  • headlong; falling steeply or vertically. 

  • Performed very rapidly or abruptly. 

  • Very steep; precipitous. 

verb
  • To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form. 

  • To throw an object or person from a great height. 

  • To act too hastily; to be precipitous. 

  • To send violently into a certain state or condition. 

  • To make something happen suddenly and quickly. 

  • To come out of a liquid solution into solid form. 

  • To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets. 

  • To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground. 

  • To fall headlong. 

noun
  • a solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution 

  • a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action 

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