SIMMER | Meaning In The Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of simmer in English simmerverb uk /ˈsɪm.ər/ us /ˈsɪm.ɚ/ Add to word list Add to word list [ I or T ] to cook something liquid, or something with liquid in it, at a temperature slightly below boiling: Leave the vegetables to simmer for a few minutes. [ I ] If a disagreement or negative emotion simmers, it grows slowly stronger over a period of time and could become more serious at any moment: The strike has been simmering for weeks. She's been simmering with resentment ever since the meeting. Preparing food using heat

• air fryer
• air-fry
• bain-marie
• bake something in phrasal verb
• baking
• cooked to a turn idiom
• cooking
• Crock-Pot
• deep fat fryer
• deep-fried
• overcook
• overdone
• pan-fry
• parboil
• poach
• underdone
• warm (someone/something) up phrasal verb
• warmed-over
• wilt
• wood-fired

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Phrasal verb

simmer down simmernoun [ S ] uk /ˈsɪm.ər/ us /ˈsɪm.ɚ/ a temperature slightly below boiling: Bring the potatoes to a simmer. When the mixture is at a simmer, reduce the heat to low.

• Put the soup back in a pan and bring it gently back to a simmer.
• Turn down the heat to a simmer and continue to cook for another 8-10 minutes.
• You just cook the eggs for 12 or so minutes at a simmer.

Preparing food using heat

• air fryer
• air-fry
• bain-marie
• bake something in phrasal verb
• baking
• cooked to a turn idiom
• cooking
• Crock-Pot
• deep fat fryer
• deep-fried
• overcook
• overdone
• pan-fry
• parboil
• poach
• underdone
• warm (someone/something) up phrasal verb
• warmed-over
• wilt
• wood-fired

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simmer | American Dictionary

simmerverb [ I/T ] us /ˈsɪm·ər/ Add to word list Add to word list to cook a liquid or something with liquid in it at a temperature slightly below boiling: [ I ] Add broth and simmer for 15 minutes.

simmer

noun [ U ] us /ˈsɪm·ər/ Bring the water to a simmer. (Definition of simmer from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of simmer

simmer The issue has been simmering for nearly two decades. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps, they feel that it does not matter that within this country there is deep resentment simmering below the surface. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The issue has been brought to the boil by recent events, but it has been simmering for quite a long time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I see no reason why we cannot reopen negotiations in a short time, after everything has simmered down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, the issue has been simmering for quite a few years, and long before the double tax convention ever saw the light of day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, a short time afterwards the indignation simmered down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are also leaving a dispute which has been simmering for sixty years and could break out after independence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They also said that the increasingly poor handling of the refugee crisis had exacerbated the simmering conflict in the area, with predictable consequences. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I should like to know who said that violence is simmering just below the surface at football grounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nothing has made a greater contribution to keeping this country in an unhealthy condition than the simmering on of this wretched, miserable controversy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The pot that has been simmering so long and has boiled over does not settle down at once. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not the case that this dispute has been simmering for the last ten months? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even before this atrocity, violence in the province has been simmering over the past few weeks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All these things are wrong, and they have been simmering under the surface for a long time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I want now to say a word on a matter which has not completely faded from the headlines or from the television screen, but which has simmered down a little. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of simmer These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of simmer?

Translations of simmer

in Chinese (Traditional) 燉，煨, （分歧或消極情緒）醞釀，積聚… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 炖，煨, （分歧或消极情绪）酝酿，积聚… See more in Spanish cocer a fuego lento, cocerse a fuego lento, hervor suave… See more in Portuguese cozinhar em fogo brando, cozinhar lentamente… See more in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Korean in Ukrainian in Italian ～をことこと煮る, 弱火で煮る… See more hafif ateşte pişmek/pişirmek, hafif ateşte piş(ir)mek… See more (faire) mijoter… See more coure(‘s) a foc lent… See more sudderen… See more mírně (po)vařit, bublat… See more simre, lade simre… See more merebus… See more ตุ๋น… See more sắp sôi, sủi… See more gotować (się) na wolnym ogniu… See more småkoka, puttra, sjuda… See more mereneh… See more sieden… See more småkoke, koke over svak varme… See more 서서히 끓이다… See more кипіти на малому вогні… See more bollire lentamente, (far) sobbollire… See more Need a translator?

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