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simmer
[ sim-er ]
verb (used without object)
- to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.
- to make a gentle murmuring sound, as liquids cooking just below the boiling point.
- to be in a state of subdued or restrained activity, development, excitement, anger, etc.:
The town simmered with rumors.
verb (used with object)
- to keep (liquid) in a state approaching boiling.
- to cook in a liquid that is kept at or just below the boiling point.
noun
- the state or process of simmering.
verb phrase
- to reduce in volume by simmering.
- Slang. to become calm or quiet, as from a state of anger or turmoil:
We waited for the audience to simmer down.
simmer
/ ˈɪə /
verb
- to cook (food) gently at or just below the boiling point
- intr to be about to break out in rage or excitement
noun
- the act, sound, or state of simmering
Other Word Forms
- m·Բ· adverb
- ·m verb
- ܲ·m adjective
- ܲ·m·Բ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of simmer1
Word History and Origins
Origin of simmer1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
This kind of critique didn’t begin with the rise of food blogs or viral restaurant fails; it’s been simmering, and sometimes simmering over, for hundreds of years.
Looking back over the last two months, we can track how that unease went from a simmer to a boil.
Even in Quebec, a province where talk of independence has long simmered, voters told the BBC they wanted leadership that would stand up to Trump.
The aftershocks would reverberate through three generations of Britain's most celebrated intellectual family, the Huxleys, leaving wounds that simmered in private letters for more than sixty years.
Mr Ábrego García's case is part of a simmering showdown between the Trump administration and the US courts system on the issue of immigration.
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