simmering
si muh ring
- n cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil
- v boil slowly at low temperature
simmering water
- In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Bertha is the madwoman locked in the attic by her husband Rochester, the simmering Englishman whose children Jane has been hired to tutor.
- Nevertheless, Brown brought that long-simmering issue to a head last summer by discovering an object he nicknamed Xena.
- The extent of the carnage left many with the uneasy sense that the long-simmering hostility between the country's two main sects has at last boiled over--and that the fragile .