smuggle
smuggle
Definition
smug·gle (smug′əl)
transitive verb -·gled, -·gling
- to bring into or take out of a country secretly, under illegal conditions or without paying the required import or export duties
- to bring, take, carry, etc. secretly or stealthily
Etymology: < LowG smuggeln, akin to OE smugan, to creep: for IE base see smock
intransitive verb
to practice smuggling; be a smuggler
smug′·gler noun
smuggle
Synonyms
smuggle
v.
smuggle
Usage Examples
Object
- cigarette: Even buying smuggled cigarettes would cost £ 1,000 per year.
- booze: I wonder if he's smuggled any booze into the ground for the break?
- tobacco: The duty lost on smuggled tobacco could pay twice over for free long term care for the elderly.
- cocaine: Toby Muse: " US troops tried to smuggle cocaine " , The Guardian, April 9, 2005.
- antiquity: In April, Yemeni police arrested a three-man gang trying to smuggle pre-Islamic antiquities over the border into Saudi Arabia.
- diamond: So the thieves decide to smuggle the diamond to London.
Preposition: on
- board: But how do you smuggle on board the necessary guidance system?
Preposition: through
- custom: Guns and ammunition are much more difficult to smuggle through customs than drugs are!
Preposition: over
- border: REYES: The set of rubbings the man smuggled over the border doesn't match the rubbings you took.
Preposition: into
- country: Check out the UK purchase circle to see which DVDs us Brits are trying to smuggle into the country at the moment.
- prison: The letter was smuggled into the prison via a policeman whom Anibalzinho knew, he added.
- camp: The French newspapers, smuggled into camp, carried stories of axis defeats on all fronts.
Modifying Another Word
- illegally: A year ago the Thai embassy in London received strong evidence that the orang-utans had been smuggled illegally from Indonesia.
- abroad: Warbeck was purported to have been rescued before his brother Edward V had been murdered in the Tower and smuggled abroad to safety.
- back: These cigarettes are then entering the black market, to be smuggled back into the UK.
- away: At a further meeting the Riot Act was read and the vicar was smuggled away by the military.
- then: The baby chimpanzees are then smuggled by boat or plane, across the world.
- often: These DVDs are often smuggled by criminal networks involved in large scale piracy.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- out: We were smuggled out of Beirut back to Canada in 1984.
Preposition: in
- container: This is because cigarettes smuggled in freight containers are never purchased tax-paid anywhere.
