Poached

He was poached by a rival company.

I make a very good poached egg.

As many as 300 pangolins are poached every day, destined for markets in Vietnam and China, where their meat is considered a delicacy and their scales believed to have medicinal properties.

The parrots were poached in their native habitat, arrived in the United States and sold as pets.

Tom wanted poached eggs, so he first had to poach a chicken.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature currently set the conservation status of the hippopotamus at 'vulnerable' due to the twin risks of habitat loss and being poached for meat and ivory.

Ziri poached a gazelle.

The viands included, among other things, a lamb roasted whole, the head of a wild boar covered with flowers, fried trouts, and poached eggs, which were eaten with boiled radishes, and peas in their shells.

He feasted on poached eggs.

Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car. Mulligatawny soup, poached turbot, roast leg of lamb—the usual railway dinner.