smuggle
verb (used with object)
to import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty.
smuggled
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past participleof smuggle.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof smuggle.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
smuggleverb (used with object)to import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty.
Example Sentences
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Jeremy told the Supreme Court: "There was no reason why, if Ben Field had smuggled Dalmane into Peter Farquhar's food or drink that night, he would have restricted himself to a therapeutic dose."
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
As a young man, by his account, he smuggled diamonds, oversaw coconut plantations, dynamited fish, captained schooners and hunted killer cannibals in the New Guinea jungle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The Wall Street Journal’s Dasl Yoon and a former North Korean soldier examine a smartphone that was smuggled out of the world’s most reclusive nation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Journalists and some White House staff on board did not know the US president had been smuggled out as part of an elaborate ruse in response to a possible Iranian threat.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
“I’m sending each of you a copy of all the Sixer data I smuggled out. Ten zettabytes of it. You should have it now.”
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
