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
  • Continue simmering for about three minutes.
    Michiko Tomioka, Contributor, CNBC, 5 Jan. 2025
  • What emerged was a picture of active resistance, simmering anger and readiness for battle, if and when the time comes.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2025
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
  • Besigye's case is part of a broader trend of transnational repression in East Africa, where opposition figures have faced abductions and deportations.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Later, after Muller released Huskins, police would accuse her of lying about her abduction.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of abduction
Noun
  • In Sweden, where citizens had enjoyed high-speed Internet since the late nineties, piracy took on a political edge.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • It is projected that far over 200 billion visits to piracy sites occur annually, and over $71 billion is lost by the digital economy annually just to piracy in the United States alone.
    Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of piracy
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