Poach

 









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–verb (used with object) 

to cook (eggs, fish, fruits, etc.) in a hot liquid that is kept just below the boiling point. 



–verb (used without object) 

1. to trespass, 

esp. 

on another's game preserve, in order to steal animals or to hunt. 



2. to take game or fish illegally.

3. (of land) to become broken up or slushy (泥濘的) by being trampled.

4. (in tennis, squash (回力球), handball, etc.) to play a ball hit into the territory of one's partner that is properly the partner's ball to play.

5. Informal. to cheat in a game or contest. 



–verb (used with object) 

6. to trespass on (private property), esp. in order to hunt or fish.

7. to steal (game or fish) from another's property.

8. to take without permission and use as one's own: to poach [ideas]; a staff poached [from] other companies. 

9. to break or tear up by trampling.

10. to mix with water and reduce to a uniform consistency, as clay.





　

Reportedly, Paul Bettany, Jude Law and Jennifer Connelly were attached until helmer David Yates was poached for last year's "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." One can say, in this case, that settling for the B team turned out well.





seethe

she has hinted that something was seething [under]neath the beautiful mask

scald 

to scald [milk]

mollycoddle

coddle

to coddle [children] when they're sick.  

to coddle an [egg].  

Noah Baumbach's [scalding] follow-up to The Squid and the Whale

When Freddy’s grossly [scalded] head once again rises out of the bathwater between a [nubile] girl’s legs, I guess Billy Bob would be a fine choice.

Fray



huckster monger hock bauble shoddy

filch

and the other [baubles] of his Hollywood years.

Or is the acting merely earnest salesmanship of [shoddy] merchandise? 

plunder 

to plunder a [town]. 

to plunder the [public treasury].  

ravage

The marauders ravaged the [village]. 

All three are symbolically [annihilated] by Jared, who [ravages] her while grunting [sexist] and [racist] epithets in her ear.

ravish

The [soldiers] [killed] the few men there, and brutally ravished the [woman].

The [storehouse] door had been [broken], and all the supplies had been ravished [away].

Their playing of the double concerto simply ravished the [audience].

She looked [stunning], 

absolutely [ravishing], when she made her entrance. 

cf. 

lavish Sham