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To smuggle is to move someone or something illegally or without following proper procedure or protocol.

(verb)

When you sneak immigrants across the border in the back of your vehicle under some blankets, this is an example of when you smuggle.

See smuggle in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb smuggled, smuggling

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

Origin: < LowG smuggeln, akin to OE smugan, to creep: for IE base see smock

intransitive verb

to practice smuggling; be a smuggler

Related Forms:

smuggler noun

See smuggle in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb smug·gled, smug·gling, smug·gles

verb, transitive

To import or export without paying lawful customs charges or duties.
To bring in or take out illicitly or by stealth.

verb, intransitive

To engage in smuggling.

Origin:

Origin: Probably Low German smukkeln, smuggeln

Origin: or Middle Dutch smokkelen

Related Forms:

smugˈgler noun

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