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# smuggled

verb form (past and past participle of «smuggle»: smuggle, smuggles, smuggled, smuggling); adjective (smuggled)

«smuggled» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Smuggled means secretly taken into or out of a country against the law, such as smuggled goods, drugs or animals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smuggled/#m1)
2. Smuggled can mean secretly brought somewhere it is not allowed, like sweets smuggled into class. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smuggled/#m2)
3. As an adjective, smuggled describes goods brought in this way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smuggled/#m3)
4. Smuggled can also mean secretly swapped for someone else so that nobody notices. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smuggled/#m4)

### In the lessons

In history lessons: smugglers on the coasts of Cornwall and other places brought in tea, brandy and lace to avoid taxes. In news and law: smuggling is a crime; endangered animals and their parts are sometimes smuggled. In everyday life it can be playful («I smuggled a biscuit»). Phrases: «smuggled in», «smuggled out», «smuggled goods».

### Examples

- Long ago, tea and brandy were smuggled into Cornwall at night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smuggled/#x1)
- Border police found smuggled parrots in a suitcase. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smuggled/#x2)
- She smuggled a torch into her bedroom to read after lights out. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smuggled/#x3)
- The prisoners smuggled out a secret letter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smuggled/#x4)
- Smuggled ivory hurts elephants. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smuggled/#x5)
- He smuggled a chocolate bar into the cinema. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smuggled/#x6)
- The pirates hid the smuggled goods in a cave. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smuggled/#x7)
- She neither spat nor did anything else, but still the witch changed her into a reindeer, and smuggled her own daughter into her place as the Prince’s wife. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smuggled/#x8)

### Note

Past and participle of «smuggle»; double «g». Noun: smuggler, smuggling. Smuggling things across borders is a crime; the joking sense (sweets into class) is just breaking a small rule.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «smuggled» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smuggled/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«smuggled» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/smuggled.html) on Mova free.