Simmer: Definition and part of speech

Simmer

  1. v. t. To cause to boil gently; to cook in liquid heated almost or just to the boiling point.
  2. v. i. To boil gently, or with a gentle hissing; to begin to boil.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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