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PRECIPITATELY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

At breakneck speed

Example:

burst headlong through the gate

Synonyms:

headlong; precipitately

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

precipitate (done with very great haste and without due deliberation)

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 Context examples: 

Jo had backed into a corner, and as she finished her speech, she vanished precipitately into the kitchen, where she sat down upon a dresser and told the assembled cats that she was happy, oh, so happy! while Laurie departed, feeling that he had made a rather neat thing of it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)