verb · transitive · rare

poach

poach · poaches · poached · poaching

клеїти, липнути, втикати

переманить, заниматься браконьерством, переманивать

klauen, stehlen, pochieren, wildern

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

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/ˈpoʊt͡ʃ/

» I make a very good poached egg.

Meaning

10 senses

(transitive)To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).
pochieren
cook in a simmering liquid
(intransitive)To be cooked in such manner.
(ambitransitive)To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
(ambitransitive)To take game or fish illegally.
wildern
занима́ться браконье́рствомzanimátʹsja brakonʹjérstvom
hunt illegally
(ambitransitive, broadly)To take anything illegally or unfairly.
klauen, stehlen
(figuratively)To intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome.
to poach in foreign academic disciplines
(ambitransitive)To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
abwerben
перема́ниватьperemánivatʹ, перемани́тьperemanítʹ
To make soft or muddy by trampling.
Cattle coming to drink had punched and poached the river bank into a mess of mud.
To become soft or muddy by being trampled on.
(obsolete)To stab; to pierce; to spear or drive or plunge into something.

Examples

14 sentences

I make a very good poached egg.
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Tom asked Mary to teach him how to poach an egg in a microwave oven.
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Poaching is illegal.
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Kalman was arrested before for poaching.
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He was poached by a rival company.
deEr wurde von der Konkurrenzfirma abgeworben. — xtofu80
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Translations

7 languages

Русский

By meaning 2

to take game or fish illegally:

to entice an employee or customer to switch:

Deutsch

By meaning 4

to cook in simmering liquid:

to take game or fish illegally:

to take illegally or unfairly:

to entice an employee or customer to switch:

Origin

From Middle English pochen (“to poach (eggs)”), from Old French pocher "to put (egg yolks)

From Middle English pochen (“to poach (eggs)”), from Old French pocher "to put (egg yolks) in pockets" (i.e. in bags formed by the whites), from Old French poche (“pocket”).

From Old French pocher, pochier (“to trample, poach into”). Doublet of poke.

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