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▸ verb:  (transitive) To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be cooked in such manner.
▸ noun:  The act of cooking in simmering liquid.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To take game or fish illegally.
▸ verb:  (by extension, ambitransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.
▸ verb:  (figurative) To intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome.
▸ verb:  (business, ambitransitive) To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
▸ verb:  To make soft or muddy by trampling.
▸ verb:  To become soft or muddy by being trampled on.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To stab; to pierce; to spear or drive or plunge into something.
▸ noun:  The act of taking something unfairly, as in tennis doubles where one player returns a shot that their partner was better placed to return.

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