poaching

1. To cook something in simmering liquid.
2. To be cooked in simmering liquid
3. To become soft or muddy.
4. To make soft or muddy.

   Cattle coming to drink had punched and poached the river bank into a mess of mud.

5. To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish.
6. To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
7. To begin and not complete.

1. To take game or fish illegally.
2. To take anything illegally or unfairly.
3. To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.

noun

Illegal procurement of protected wildlife such as fish, game, logging, or plant collecting.