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poach 音标拼音: [p'otʃ] vt. 水煮(荷包蛋),偷猎,侵入,偷得
vi. 偷猎,陷入泥中 水煮(荷包蛋),偷猎,侵入,偷得偷猎,陷入泥中 poach v 1: hunt illegally; " people are poaching elephants for their ivory" 2: cook in a simmering liquid; " poached apricots" Poach \ Poach\, v. i. 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Poach \ Poach\, v. t. [ Cf. OF. pocher to thrust or dig out with the fingers, to bruise ( the eyes), F. pouce thumb, L. pollex, and also E. poach to cook eggs, to plunder, and poke to thrust against.] 1. To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish. [ Obs.] -- Carew. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To force, drive, or plunge into anything. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] His horse poching one of his legs into some hollow ground. -- Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To make soft or muddy by trampling. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To begin and not complete. [ Obs.] -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster]
Poach \ Poach\ ( p[= o] ch), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Poached} ( p[= o] cht); p. pr. & vb. n. { Poaching}.] [ F. pocher to place in a pocket, to poach eggs ( the yolk of the egg being as it were pouched in the white), from poche pocket, pouch. See { Pouch}, v. & n.] 1. To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder. -- Garth. [ 1913 Webster]
Poach \ Poach\, v. i. To become soft or muddy. [ 1913 Webster] Chalky and clay lands . . . chap in summer, and poach in winter. -- Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster] 73 Moby Thesaurus words for " poach": abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, bake, barbecue, baste, blanch, boil, boost, borrow, braise, brew, broil, brown, coddle, cook, cop, crib, curry, defraud, devil, do, do to perfection, embezzle, extort, filch, fire, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, griddle, grill, heat, hook, lift, make off with, nip, oven- bake, palm, pan, pan- broil, parboil, pilfer, pinch, prepare, prepare food, purloin, roast, run away with, rustle, saute, scallop, scrounge, sear, shirr, shoplift, simmer, snare, snatch, snitch, steal, steam, stew, stir- fry, swindle, swipe, take, thieve, toast, walk off with
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