He was poached by a rival company.
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Poached
//poʊt͡ʃt//
Synonyms for "poached" (14 found)
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4 translations across 3 languages.
Italian
2 entries- bollito adj (cooked in hot water)
- lessato adj (cooked in hot water)
Manx
1 entries- scoaldit adj (cooked in hot water)
Welsh
1 entries- wedi'i botsio adj (cooked in hot water)
Sample sentences
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I make a very good poached egg.
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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.
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The parrots were poached in their native habitat, arrived in the United States and sold as pets.
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