Usually means: Gently cooking liquid just below boiling.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word simmering:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. simmering: Merriam-Webster
  2. simmering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. simmering: Vocabulary.com
  4. Simmering, simmering: Wordnik
  5. simmering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. simmering: Wiktionary
  7. simmering: Dictionary.com
  8. simmering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Simmering (Vienna), Simmering (Vienna U-Bahn), Simmering: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Simmering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. simmering: Rhymezone
  12. Simmering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. simmering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. simmering: FreeDictionary.org
  15. simmering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. simmering: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. simmering: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. simmering: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (simmering)

▸ noun:  The act of something that simmers.

Similar:
stewing, boiling, rolling boil, steaming, sousing, steeping, coction, sweating, soak, reduction, more...

Opposite:
boiling, blazing, heating up, cooking on high

Phrases:
simmering down, cook by simmering, to get control over simmering, more...

Colors:
    amber,     copper,     bronze,     gold,     saffron, more...



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Similar:
stewing, boiling, rolling boil, steaming, sousing, steeping, coction, sweating, soak, reduction, more...

Opposite:
boiling, blazing, heating up, cooking on high

Phrases:
simmering down, cook by simmering, to get control over simmering, more...

Colors:
    amber,     copper,     bronze,     gold,     saffron, more...



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