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sim⋅mer

  [sim-er]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.
2. to make a gentle murmuring sound, as liquids cooking just below the boiling point.
3. to be in a state of subdued or restrained activity, development, excitement, anger, etc.: The town simmered with rumors.
–verb (used with object)
4. to keep (liquid) in a state approaching boiling.
5. to cook in a liquid that is kept at or just below the boiling point.
–noun
6. the state or process of simmering.
—Verb phrase
7. simmer down,
a. to reduce in volume by simmering.
b. Slang. to become calm or quiet, as from a state of anger or turmoil: We waited for the audience to simmer down.
Origin:
1645–55; alter. of earlier simper < ?

Related forms:
sim⋅mer⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
3. See boil 1 .
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simmer (down)

  1. in.
    to reduce one's anger. : Simmer down, you guys.
  2. in.
    to get quiet. : I waited till things began to simmer down, and then I started.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

simmer 
1653, alteration of simperen "to simmer" (1477), possibly of imitative origin. Fig. sense, of feelings, "to be agitated" is from 1764. Opposite sense, in simmer down, first recorded 1871.
"I must and will keep shady and quiet till Bret Harte simmers down a little." [Mark Twain, letter, 1871]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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