smuggle
/ˈsmʌɡəl/ verb C1- To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties.
- To bring in surreptitiously.
- To thrash or be thrashed by a bear's claws, or to swipe at or be swiped at by a person's arms in a bearlike manner.
He/she/it smuggles · Past smuggled · Past participle smuggled · -ing form smuggling
Verb forms
- Base form
- smuggle
- He/she/it
- smuggles
- Past
- smuggled
- Past participle
- smuggled
- -ing form
- smuggling
From the library
I have some smuggled coffee and most capital tobacco, in a small chest in the hold, which you shall have tomorrow.
Two years ago a very large sum was smuggled through the Estimates and was expended in acquiring a monopoly of the invention.
Ruby Gillis smuggled three blue plums over to her during testament reading; Ella May MacPherson gave her an enormous yellow pansy cut from the covers of a floral catalogue--a species of desk decoration much prized in Avonlea school.
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