SIMMERED

Definition: SIMMERED

SIMMERED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Simmer

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "SIMMERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Yes, it's a delightful Hindu concoction simmered to perfection by one of the great soup artisans in the modern era. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)
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Domain	Title
Books	Corn: Roasted, Creamed, Simmered and More (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Fiji	Ethnic tensions simmered in 1995-96 over the renewal of Indo-Fijian land leases and political maneuvering surrounding the mandated 7-year review of the 1990 constitution. (references)
	Paraguay	Though the short-lived Cubas administration was hampered by political conflicts, it attempted to reduce the rising government deficit by cutting spending, to fight intellectual property piracy in order to attract foreign investment, and to address a financial sector crisis that had simmered since 1995. The Gonzalez Macchi government has made some progress on state reform and privatization, but the fiscal deficit has grown as has Paraguay's external debt. (references)
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"SIMMERED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 60.71% of the time. "SIMMERED" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	60.71%	17	85,106
Lexical Verb (past participle)	39.29%	11	106,044
Total	100.00%	28	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "SIMMERED": slow-simmered.
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Language		Translations for "SIMMERED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		siedete (boiled), gesiedet (seethed). (various references)

Pig Latin		immeredsay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"SIMMERED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Simrad, stimerol, sumere. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "SIMMERED" (pronounced si"merd)
4	-i" m er d	shimmered.
3	-m er d	armored, clamored, enamored, hammered, humored, murmured, rumored.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: immersed.
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-m-m-r-s"
	-1 letter: dimmers, immerse, misdeem, remised.
	-2 letters: demies, demise, dermis, desire, dimers, dimmer, eiders, emmers, merdes, mimers, remise, reside, rimmed, simmer.
	-3 letters: deems, deers, deism, demes, derms, dimer, dimes, disme, drees, dries, eider, emirs, emmer, meeds, memes, merde, meres, mimed, mimer, mimes, mired, mires, miser, redes, reeds, resid, rides, rimed, rimes, seder, sered, sired, siree.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-m-m-r-s"
	+1 letter: dismember, memorised, mistermed, shimmered.
	+2 letters: dismembers, dreamtimes, mesmerised, mesmerized, misnomered, reimmersed.
	+3 letters: determinism, dismembered, disremember, misdemeanor, symmetrized.
	+4 letters: commanderies, commiserated, determinisms, dismembering, disremembers, immoderacies, mainstreamed, masterminded, memorialised, misdemeanors, semidiameter.
	+5 letters: dismemberment, disremembered, dissymmetries, dynamometries, indeterminism, melodramatise, misremembered, semidiameters.
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