Mary tried to smuggle a hacksaw blade into the prison inside a cake.
Source: tatoeba (1922281)
Smuggle
//ˈsmʌɡəl//
Synonyms for "smuggle" (9 found)
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Translations
56 translations across 38 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- smokkel verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Arabic
2 entries- هرب verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
- هَرَّبَ verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Basque
1 entries- kontrabando egin verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Bulgarian
2 entries- внасям тайно verb (to bring in surreptitiously)
- контрабандирам verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Catalan
1 entries- fer el contraban verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 走私 verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 走私 verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Czech
1 entries- pašovat verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Finnish
1 entries- salakuljettaa verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
French
2 entries- contrebander verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
- passer en contrebande verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Galician
1 entries- contrabandear verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
German
2 entries- schmuggeln verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
- schmuggeln verb (to bring in surreptitiously)
Hebrew
1 entries- הבריח verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Hindi
2 entries- तस्करी verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
- तस्करी करना verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Hungarian
4 entries- csempész verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
- csempész verb (to bring in surreptitiously)
- csempészik verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
- csempészik verb (to bring in surreptitiously)
Ido
1 entries- kontrabandar verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Italian
1 entries- contrabbandare verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Japanese
1 entries- 密輸する verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Khmer
1 entries- រត់គយ verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Korean
1 entries- 밀수하다 verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Lao
1 entries- ລັກລອບ verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Macedonian
2 entries- криу́мчари verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
- шверцува verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Māori
4 entries- kawe toropuku verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
- kawe toropuku verb (to bring in surreptitiously)
- kawe tāhae verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
- kuhu tāhae verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Neapolitan
2 entries- cuntrabbandà verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
- smercià verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Norman
2 entries- faithe la fraude verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
- frauder verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- smugle verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Polish
2 entries- przemycać verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
- przemycić verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Portuguese
1 entries- contrabandear verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Romanian
1 entries- contrabanda verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Russian
1 entries- провози́ть контраба́ндой verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- krijumčariti verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Slovak
1 entries- pašovať verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Slovene
2 entries- pretihotapiti verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
- tihotapiti verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Sotho
1 entries- kunyata verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Spanish
2 entries- contrabandear verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
- pasar de contrabando verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Swedish
1 entries- smuggla verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Ukrainian
2 entries- провозити контрабандою verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
- робити контрабанду verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Vietnamese
1 entries- buôn lậu verb (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
He was sent to solitary confinement after he tried to smuggle cocaine into his cell.
Source: tatoeba (8165591)
She attempted to smuggle diamonds into Algeria.
Source: tatoeba (8168438)
Cameroon’s wildlife protection service said its officers and police caught six traffickers as they were attempting last week to smuggle pangolins and their scales through the Douala International Airport.
Source: tatoeba (11263024)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.