SIMMERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does simmering mean? 

• SIMMERING (noun)
  The noun SIMMERING has 1 sense:

1. cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil

  Familiarity information: SIMMERING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIMMERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

boiling; simmering; stewing

Hypernyms ("simmering" is a kind of...):

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Derivation:

simmer (boil slowly at low temperature)

 Context examples 

"It's genius simmering, perhaps. I'll let it simmer, and see what comes of it," he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn't genius, but something far more common.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Good-night!" said I, and vanished, like all disconsolate and broken-hearted heroes, into the darkness, with grief and rage and laughter all simmering within me like a boiling pot.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A thousand columns of smoke reeked up into the pure morning air where the faggots were piled and the camp-kettles already simmering.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It's simmering now, so I hope he'll keep out of my way, returned Jo, biting her lips as she glowered at Fred from under her big hat.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As my train emerged from the tunnel into sunlight, only the hot whistles of the National Biscuit Company broke the simmering hush at noon.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)