Dictionary Entry
poach
poach is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as verb & noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1verb & noun
To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.
- 2verb & noun
To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.
- 3intransitive verb
To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.
- 4transitive verb
To stab; to pierce; to spear, \as fish.
- 5transitive verb
To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
- 6transitive verb
To make soft or muddy by trampling
- 7transitive verb
To begin and not complete.
- 8intransitive verb
To become soft or muddy.
- 9verb
cook in a simmering liquid
"poached apricots"
- 10verb
hunt illegally
"people are poaching elephants for their ivory"
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