poachverb
uk/pəʊtʃ/us/poʊtʃ/poach verb (COOK)
[ T ] to cook something such as a fish, or an egg with its shell removed, by putting it in gently boiling water or other liquid:
We had poached eggs for breakfast.
Do you like pears poached in red wine?
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Preparing food using heat
- bake
- barbecue
- baste
- batch-bake
- boil sth up
- boiled
- curry
- flambé
- flash-fry
- fried
- frizzled
- fry
- microwave
- preheat
- render
- render sth down
- rendering
- sauté
- shallow-fry
- simmer
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poach verb (TAKE)
[ I or T ] to catch and kill animals without permission on someone else's land:
The farmer claimed that he shot the men because they were poaching on his land.
[ T ] to take and use for yourself unfairly or dishonestly something, usually an idea, that belongs to someone else:
Jeff always poaches my ideas, and then pretends that they're his own.
[ T ] disapproving to persuade someone who works for someone else to come and work for you:
They were furious when one of their best managers was poached by another company.
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Stealing
- abscond
- aggravated burglary
- appropriate
- armed robbery
- break in/break into sth
- duff
- larceny
- liberate
- light-fingered
- loot
- looting
- mug
- relieve
- rob
- robbery
- run off with sth
- scrump
- shoplifting
- sting
- whip
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