smuggle

Verb

Meaning

To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace.

Fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely.

To import or export in violation of the customs laws.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

snook run plant running slip deal traffic spirit export push import hide shield suppress mask
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Antonyms

see show demonstrate reveal expose uncover
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Hypernyms

export import

Derivatives

smuggled smuggling

Anagrams

muggles

Examples

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis. Michael Apted

I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?' Evgeny Morozov

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong. Michael Mandelbaum

I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building. Mordechai Vanunu

She smuggled cigarettes across the border Source: Internet

Abdullahi said that the incident happened during a confrontation with smugglers who were trying to smuggle petrol to neighbouring Benin Republic. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

smuggishly smuggishness smugglable smuggle past smuggleable smuggled