Intermediate 📚 Vocabulary · #580 of 1319

simmer (v.)

to cook gently below boiling

Examples

  • Simmer for ten minutes.

Key rules

  • Simmer means cook gently in liquid just below boiling
  • Simmer for ten minutes
  • Simmer is intransitive or transitive
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