Poach

Quick meaning: Poach is a verb meaning (transitive) To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).

Meaning

(transitive) To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To be cooked in such manner.
2. The act of cooking in simmering liquid.
3. (ambitransitive) To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
4. (ambitransitive) To take game or fish illegally.
5. (by extension, ambitransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.
6. (figurative) To intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome.
7. (business, ambitransitive) To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.

Example Sentences

to poach in foreign academic disciplines

Cattle coming to drink had punched and poached the river bank into a mess of mud.

The white of an egg with spirit of wine, doth bake the egg into clots, as if it began to poach.

Peaches are so perfect they need very little to make them extra special—just a quick poach in basil-scented rosé wine and a few adoring strawberries.

Word Forms

• poaches
• poaching
• poached

Synonyms for poach

Depending on context, synonyms include jab, run through, chef, chib, ching, chive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stewed, cooked, boiled, trample, swipe, steal.

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