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Soprano worse off eating hot peppers (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

showers

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'peppers' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are verbs in their -s form, I cannot understand how they can define each other.

'soprano worse off eating hot' is the wordplay.
'soprano' becomes 's' (musical abbreviation).
'off' is an anagram indicator.
'eating' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'hot' becomes 'h' (abbreviation eg on taps).
'worse' anagrammed gives 'owers'.
'owers' enclosing 'h' is 'howers'.
's'+'howers'='SHOWERS'

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(Other definitions for showers that I've seen before include "Short falls of rain" , "Exhibitionists" , "Brief periods of precipitation" , "groups of slovenly people" , "Wet weather" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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