poach
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
hunt illegally
people are poaching elephants for their ivory
Types & categories
- hunt hypernym
Related & opposite
- poacher derivation
Sense 2 verb
cook in a simmering liquid
poached apricots
Types & categories
- cook hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | poacher |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | hunt |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | poaching |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | poacher |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | cook |