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# simmering

«simmering» in Mova's school dictionary: **just below boiling, with small bubbles** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (simmer, simmers, simmered, simmering — -ing form); adjective (simmering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cooking gently in liquid that is just below boiling, with small bubbles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simmering/#m1)

2) (of feelings) Growing slowly inside someone without fully showing yet, like anger or excitement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simmering/#m2)

3) (of a problem or argument) Continuing quietly and likely to grow worse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simmering/#m3)

4) «Simmering down» — becoming calmer after being angry or excited. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simmering/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In cooking and science, simmering is gentle heating below 100 °C at sea level, used for soups and sauces; safety lessons remind pupils to keep pan handles turned in. In stories simmering anger shows a character close to exploding. In news, «simmering tensions» describes a dispute that has not yet become a fight.

### examples

- The soup is simmering on the stove. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simmering/#x1)
- Let the sauce keep simmering for ten minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simmering/#x2)
- She was simmering with anger but said nothing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simmering/#x3)
- There were simmering tensions between the two teams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simmering/#x4)
- "Simmer down!" said the teacher when we got too loud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simmering/#x5)
- Leave the pan simmering, not boiling hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simmering/#x6)
- The simmering argument finally boiled over at lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simmering/#x7)

### note

Regular verb; doubled «m» already in «simmer». Simmering is gentler than boiling: small, slow bubbles. «Boil over» (literally and figuratively) is what happens after things simmer too long.

### In the corpora

- [When you cook with alcohol, some of it always stays in the food; long simmering removes most but not all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «simmering» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/simmering/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.