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Simmered

Simmer \Sim"mer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Simmered; p. pr. & vb. n. Simmering.] [Prov. E. also simper; -- an onomatopoetic word.] To boil gently, or with a gentle hissing; to begin to boil.

I simmer as liquor doth on the fire before it beginneth to boil.
--Palsgrave.

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simmered

vb. (en-past of: simmer)

Usage examples of "simmered".

The removes were equally sumptuous: fish, scallops, prawns, lobsters, and mussels simmered in butter and garlic, and the special sauces for which the head chef was renowned.

Another day would be required to strain the pulp, and the juice had to be simmered down to the right consistency to make the numbweed salve.

While the pot simmered, he went back to the shed and settled down to await developments.

She had passion that boiled rather than simmered and eyes as quiet as a foggy evening.

What was between them had ignited at the first meeting and had simmered too long.

And that the passion that simmered in her paintings, simmered in her equally.

While she simmered, Grant went through the book, pausing, then going on until he came to the sketch of himself.

It had been cruel, and on the rare occasions when Lew was willing to discuss it, his voice had simmered with ancient rage.

She went off into a fresh stream of giggles, while Javanne simmered in her chair.

Though Remington denies rumors of a romance between him and his companion for the evening, the delectable Natalie Winston—who simmered in a beaded sheath by Valentino—sources in the know say differently.

He had brutally attacked his archrival House Ecaz by carpet-bombing the entire capital peninsula, killing the Archduke's eldest daughter and rekindling a feud that had simmered for generations.