poached

/pəʊtʃt/

IPA: /P OW1 CH T/

verb

1
To cook something in simmering liquid.
2
To be cooked in simmering liquid
3
To become soft or muddy.
4
To make soft or muddy.
“Cattle coming to drink had punched and poached the river bank into a mess of mud.”
5
To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish.
6
To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
7
To begin and not complete.

verb

1
To take game or fish illegally.
2
To take anything illegally or unfairly.
3
To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.

adjective

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