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(transitive, intransitive) To trespass on another's property to take fish or game. / (transitive, intransitive) To take game or fish illegally.

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poach

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Source Word

poach

IPA(Pronunciation)

intransitive transitive broadly figuratively obsolete

Japanese Meaning

他人の所有地に不法に侵入して、魚や狩猟対象の動物を取りに行くこと / 違法に狩猟対象の動物や魚をとること、つまり密猟や密漁すること

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Ranchers hired guards after they discovered people trying to poach deer on the preserve.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

保護区で鹿を密猟しようとする人たちが見つかったため、牧場主は警備員を雇った。

Sense（1）

(transitive, intransitive) To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.

Sense（2）

(transitive, intransitive) To take game or fish illegally.

A 2016 study using carbon dating of more than 200 tusks from seizures spanning nine countries suggested that illegal ivory originates from elephants poached recently, instead of being pilfered from aging stockpiles kept by various nations.

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Sense（3）

(by extension, transitive, intransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.

Chelsea's embarrassment was symbolised by Ross Barkley's inexplicable header straight to the feet of Aguero to poach his second and Ilkay Gundogan capped that early blitz with a low drive.

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Sense（4）

(figuratively) To intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome.

to poach in foreign academic disciplines

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Sense（5）

(business, transitive, intransitive) To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.

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Sense（6）

To make soft or muddy by trampling.

Cattle coming to drink had punched and poached the river bank into a mess of mud.

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Sense（7）

To become soft or muddy by being trampled on.

Chalky and clay lands […] chap in summer, and poach in winter.

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Sense（8）

(obsolete) To stab; to pierce; to spear or drive or plunge into something.

They vse alſo to poche them with an instrument somewhat like the Sammon-speare

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poaches

（ present singular third-person ）

poaching

（ participle present ）

poached

（ participle past ）

poached

（ past ）

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