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- Dictionarypoach/pəʊtʃ/
verb
- 1. illegally hunt or catch (game or fish) on land that is not one's own or in contravention of official protection: "20 tigers are thought to have been poached from national parks" Similar
- 2. (of an animal) trample or cut up (turf) with its hoofs: "zero-grazing saves the fields from poaching"
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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.
The meaning of POACH is to cook in simmering liquid. How to use poach in a sentence.
[transitive, intransitive] poach (something) to illegally hunt birds, animals or fish on somebody else’s property or without permission. The elephants are poached for their tusks.
poach. (poʊtʃ ) Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense poaches , present participle poaching , past tense, past participle poached. 1. verb. If someone poaches fish, animals, or birds, they illegally catch them on someone else's property. Many wildlife parks are regularly invaded by people poaching game. [VERB noun] [ Also VERB]
poach. verb. /poʊtʃ/ Verb Forms. [transitive] poach something to cook food, especially fish, gently in a small amount of liquid poached salmon. Want to learn more?
Poach definition: to cook (eggs, fish, fruits, etc.) in a hot liquid that is kept just below the boiling point.. See examples of POACH used in a sentence.
When people poach deer or ducks, they hunt them illegally. On the other hand, when you poach an egg, it's perfectly legal — you just cook it in simmering water. Hunters are only permitted to hunt certain animals during specific times of the year, and only in certain locations.
