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# poaching

«poaching» in Mova's school dictionary: **Illegally hunting or catching animals, birds or fish…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (poaching, uncountable); verb form (present participle of poach)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Illegally hunting or catching animals, birds or fish, especially on someone else's land or protected animals like elephants and rhinos. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poaching/#m1)

2) Cooking food, such as eggs or fish, gently in water or milk that is just below boiling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poaching/#m2)

3) Taking or tempting away someone else's workers, players or ideas: «poaching players». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poaching/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons on endangered animals, poaching for ivory and horns is a big threat to elephants, rhinos and tigers; rangers try to stop poachers. In cooking lessons and at breakfast, poaching eggs is a healthy way to cook them. In sport news, clubs accuse others of poaching players.

### examples

- Poaching has made black rhinos very rare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poaching/#x1)
- Rangers patrol the park to stop poaching. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poaching/#x2)
- Dad is poaching eggs for breakfast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poaching/#x3)
- Poaching fish in milk keeps it soft. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poaching/#x4)
- The big club was accused of poaching young players. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poaching/#x5)
- Poaching deer on the lord's land was once punished harshly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poaching/#x6)

### note

From «poach» (poach, poaches, poached, poaching). A poacher is a person who poaches animals. In football, a «poacher» is a striker who scores close to the goal. Poached egg = egg cooked without its shell in simmering water.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «poaching» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poaching/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.