poaching 1 of 2

noun

Definition of poachingnext
as in smuggling

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poaching

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verb

present participle of poach
as in boiling
to cook in a liquid heated to the point that it gives off steam poaching fish in a stock flavored with white wine

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poaching
  1. simmering
  2. rapine
  3. spoliation
  4. despoliation
  5. pillage
  6. abduction
  7. piracy
Verb
  • Heat over medium-high heat until simmering, stirring occasionally.
    Emily Price, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Place chocolate, butter, espresso powder, and salt in a medium heatproof bowl, and place over simmering water in pan.
    Tricia Manzanero Stuedeman, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of simmering
Noun
  • If his decades-long track record is any indication, Sanders would be inclined to make excuses for our adversaries and look on the bright side of their repression and rapine.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 25 Feb. 2020
  • There is no question about the general philosophy that underlay this great act of public pillage and economic rapine.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Mar. 2013
Definition of rapine
Noun
  • That amounts to spoliation, the defense claims, and should result in the dismissal of the charges against Trump.
    Perry Stein, Washington Post, 30 June 2024
  • The West should also prepare for a Russia that inflicts even greater spoliation on a global scale—but not drive it to do so.
    Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
Definition of spoliation
Noun
  • For that reason, the Abraham Accords lie in tatters - a despoliation very deliberately aimed at by Iran and Hamas via October 7.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Landscape exists to register ideas, like dispossession or despoliation, but not feelings.
    Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
Definition of despoliation
Noun
  • These are curated from the titles that were most frequently picked up in the Criterion Closet, that magical room full of the company’s releases that visiting filmmakers and luminaries are invited to peruse and pillage.
    Vulture Staff, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
  • At only 6 years old, Esai Reed has endured three emergency evacuations from orphanages across Haiti as gangs pillage and plunder their way through once peaceful communities.
    Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2024
Definition of pillage
Noun
  • Her abduction held Spain in suspense for 900 days before her body was found in September 1995.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The festival has toned down the bling in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, sparked by the latter’s October 7 attack on southern Israel which killed more than 1,100 people, and resulted in the abduction of 253 people.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of abduction
Noun
  • Some states, including Florida, have implemented harsher penalties for those found criminally liable for porch piracy and package theft.
    Chandelis Duster, NPR, 3 Dec. 2024
  • In early 2000s New York City, a struggling filmmaker finds power and purpose in the criminal underworld of film piracy, before falling into a cat-and-mouse game with the FBI and studios hell-bent on stopping him.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of piracy
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