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

1. verb & noun. To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.
2. verb & noun. To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.
3. intransitive 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.
4. transitive verb. To stab; to pierce; to spear, \as fish.
5. transitive verb. To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
6. transitive verb. To make soft or muddy by trampling
7. transitive verb. To begin and not complete.
8. intransitive verb. To become soft or muddy.
9. verb. cook in a simmering liquid

   "poached apricots"

10. verb. hunt illegally

    "people are poaching elephants for their ivory"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in poach:

chopa, phoca

Common word forms

poached, poacher, poaches, poaching, poachable

Words from these letters

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