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Smuggle

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Verb

1. smuggle

import or export without paying customs duties

Example Sentences:
'She smuggled cigarettes across the border'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Smuggle

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verb
1. 
to import or export (prohibited or dutiable goods) secretly
2. (tr; often foll by into or out of)
to bring or take secretly, as against the law or rules
3. (transitive; foll by away)
to conceal; hide

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Smuggle

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verb transitiveWord forms: ˈsmuggled or ˈsmuggling
1. 
to bring into or take out of a country secretly, under illegal conditions or without paying the required import or export duties
2. 
to bring, take, carry, etc. secretly or stealthily
verb intransitive
3. 
to practice smuggling; be a smuggler

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Smuggle

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v. smug·gled, smug·gling, smug·gles
v.tr.
1.
a. To bring into a country (a prohibited item) secretively and intentionally, in violation of the law.
b. To bring into a country (an item) secretively and intentionally without declaring the item to customs officials and paying the associated duties or taxes on it, in violation of the law.
2. To bring in or take out illicitly or by stealth: smuggled homemade popcorn into the theater.
v.intr.
To engage in smuggling.

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