Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word POACH

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Definitions of POACH

1. The act of cooking in simmering liquid.
2. The act of taking something unfairly, as in tennis doubles where one player returns a shot that their partner was better placed to return.
3. To make soft or muddy by trampling.
4. To become soft or muddy by being trampled on.
5. (transitive) To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).
6. (ambitransitive) To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
7. (intransitive) To be cooked in such manner.
8. (ambitransitive) To take game or fish illegally.
9. (by extension, ambitransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.
10. (figurative) To intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome.
11. (business, ambitransitive) To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
12. (obsolete) To stab; to pierce; to spear or drive or plunge into something.

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Examples of Using POACH in a Sentence

• A long simmering player war between the NHA and PCHA exploded once again in 1915 when the Patricks caught the Ottawa Senators trying to poach Vancouver's best player, Cyclone Taylor.
• their diets comprise a variety of grasses, herbaceous plants, and shoots, grasses, fruit and wetland plants and they poach into cultivated crops to graze and browse in nearby fields of rice, lentils, maize, peas and grapes.
• Sana also deals with many ups-and-downs of show business, such as competitive co-stars, rabid fans, zealous paparazzi, false rumors in tabloids, ruthless talent managers who try to poach her, and in the anime, even an imposter.
• Kei and Yuri, disguised as a pregnant Shasti and an overweight male model, with EPD (Explosive Personality Disorder) Eddie, travel to the covert trade and technology nexus of the Nimkasi, a Dyson tree habitat, where the 3WA have scored a deal with the Black Market habitat to poach 50 of the worst "crims, terrs, and pirates" from its megatree branches, in less than 100 minutes.
• Colonel Flynn O'Flynn, a hard-drinking American, manipulates British aristocrat Sebastian Oldsmith into helping poach ivory in Tanganyika, which is part of the German-controlled pre-World War I territory of German East Africa.
• All approaches were ignored by the VFL at the time with the reason given by Jack Hamilton being that the VFL clubs thought that one or two SANFL teams would end up being too strong later admitting that they also wanted to continue to poach the states best players, which would soon include Craig Bradley and Stephen Kernahan in 1986.
• In the first decades of the 19th century the Russian-American Company (RAC) operating out of Sitka, Alaska, began to bring Aleut hunters and their kayaks and baidarkas to the coast of Spanish California to poach sea otters.
• The defection of Petra Wimbersky and Karolin Thomas from Potsdam to Frankfurt inflamed the rivalry, as the two clubs had abided by an unwritten agreement not to poach each other's players without first consulting the German Football Association.
• In another one of his get-rich-quick schemes, Del Boy has struck a deal with Boycie and a fish restaurant owner which will involve himself, Rodney, and Grandad staying at Boycie's weekend cottage in Cornwall and bribing the local gamekeeper to allow them to poach salmon, with the restaurant owner offering £10 for each salmon caught.
• Attempting to "shadow" a landman in a courthouse that you do not know is an easy way to get blackballed in that county, as some individuals will go to courthouses specifically to try to poach areas from other companies.
• The Independent has alleged that Robert Jenrick's campaign launched a whipping operation in order to poach Cleverly's supporters, convincing those who disliked Kemi Badenoch to support Jenrick in order to keep her out of the final round.
• He transforms himself into the ridiculously adorable lisping child called Twinkle, and claims that Sophie is his "aunt" in order to meddle with the mystery that only Sophie was supposed to be involved as the King cannot "poach" someone else's royal high wizard into helping.
• The Gnesio-Lutherans exercised strict doctrinal discipline, but they also opposed with equal determination what they considered to be the errors of their fellow combatants like von Amsdorf (Amsdorfians), Flacius (Flacians), Andreas Poach, and others.
• The 718 tries to demotivate HD in a street dance-off, and manages to temporarily poach Tina from HD after.
• In March 2015, after a match against Changchun Yatai, he was heavily criticised for annulling teammate Gao Lin's certain bicycle kick goal by attempting to poach the goal for himself by just brushing the ball on the line with his head, which meant ultimately that the goal was (correctly) ruled offside and the team only drew the match 1–1.

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