Food and drink
Synonyms for simmer
The synonym for simmer recorded in this bank is stew, in the sense "to cook gently in liquid just below boiling point". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for simmer
- stewverb, in the sense "to cook gently in liquid just below boiling point"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for simmer.
to cook gently in liquid just below boiling point
Let the soup simmer on low heat for twenty minutes.
The true synonym
stew
Same sentence, swapped: Let the soup stew on low heat for twenty minutes.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for simmer in the sentence quoted.
- roast
- fry
- bake
Where simmer turns up in the game
simmer is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where simmer is the trap
- coldnessnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is frigidity, in the sense "the absence of heat", and simmer is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play simmer
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so simmer reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from food and drink at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. simmer carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.