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smuggle

/ˈsmʌɡəl/ verbo C1

En español: contrabandear, pasar de contrabando

  1. To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties. (intransitive, transitive)
  2. To bring in surreptitiously. (transitive)
  3. 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. (slang)

He/she/it smuggles · Pasado smuggled · Participio pasado smuggled · Forma en -ing smuggling

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De la biblioteca

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.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 127 · C1
Two years ago a very large sum was smuggled through the Estimates and was expended in acquiring a monopoly of the invention.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 8 · B2
I have some smuggled coffee and most capital tobacco, in a small chest in the hold, which you shall have tomorrow.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 15 · C1

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