To cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
The soup simmered on the stove.
To cause to cook or to cause to undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
Simmer the soup for five minutes, then serve.
To be on the point of breaking out into anger; to be agitated.
Maybe that really did happen, and Robin's anger at his wife had simmered for this long?
The state or process of simmering.
The kettle was kept on the simmer.
Someone who plays a sim (a simulation game), particularly The Sims.
A surname from German.
From alteration of dialectal simper, from Middle English simperen (“to simmer”), of possibly imitative origin. First attested in the intransitive sense. The noun is from the verb. First attested in th...
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A fan of the video game series The Sims.