Meaning

4 senses
  1. (intransitive, transitive)To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties

    schmuggeln

    провози́ть контраба́ндойprovozítʹ kontrabándoj

    робити контрабандуrobyty kontrabandu, провозити контрабандоюprovozyty kontrabandoju

    import or export without paying customs duties

  2. (transitive)To bring in surreptitiously

    schmuggeln

  3. (slang)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.

  4. (obsolete, transitive)To fondle or cuddle.

Examples

27 sentences
  1. The police arrested him for smuggling.

    Поліція заарештувала його за контрабанду.

    ruПолиция арестовала его за контрабанду.

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  2. Tom ate the chocolate donut that I had smuggled into the hospital.

    ruТом съел шоколадный пончик, который я украдкой пронесла в больницу.

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  3. Mary tried to smuggle a hacksaw blade into the prison inside a cake.

    deMaria versuchte, in einem Kuchen eine Eisensäge ins Gefängnis zu schmuggeln.

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  4. I heard that Tom had been smuggling drugs into America for years before he got caught.

    ruЯ слышал, Том перевозил наркотики в Америку годами, прежде чем его поймали.

    deIch habe gehört, dass Tom, ehe man ihn schnappte, jahrelang Drogen nach Amerika geschmuggelt haben soll.

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  5. Tom smuggled something into Australia for Mary.

    deTom schmuggelte für Maria etwas nach Australien.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties:
Русский
By meaning 1
to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties:

Forms

smuggles, smuggling, smuggled, smuggled
Base formsmuggle · to smuggle
3rd person singularsmuggles
Present participlesmuggling
Past simplesmuggled
Past participlesmuggled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysmuggle
he, she, itsmuggles

Past simpleLesson

all personssmuggled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave smuggled
he, she, ithas smuggled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill smuggle

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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