Synonyms of smuggle

smuggle

verb

as in to sell

to move (people or goods) from one country to another secretly and illegally

They were arrested for smuggling drugs across the border.

Related Words

• sell
• distribute
• buy
• supply
• exchange
• negotiate
• barter
• black-market
• fence
• transact
• resell
• bootleg
• purchase
• take
• bargain
• merchandise
• swap
• horse-trade
• peddle
• monopolize
• auction
• wholesale
• vend
• market
• rebuy
• trade
• pick up
• undersell
• speculate
• engross
• retail
• invest
• deal
• corner
• fair-trade
• traffic
• day-trade

Dissimilar Words

• boycott
• black
• blackball

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of smuggle

Amid anecdotal reports that airport security services have been confiscating bottles of ranch dressing that sports tourists have tried to smuggle out of the country, Kraft Heinz came up with a TSA-friendly size of ranch dressing. — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 25 June 2026

His 2023 Sangiovese comes from old vines whose cuttings were smuggled from Isole e Olena and Fontodi in Chianti in the mid-1980s, own-rooted, never replicated. — Michelle Williams, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

Last month, two Georgia teenagers were charged just 74 miles east of Macon for allegedly using drones to smuggle contraband into the Washington State Prison in Davisboro, Georgia. — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 24 June 2026

In the film, which was based on a Pulitzer Prize nominated memoir, Betty escapes the clutches of her barbaric Iranian husband (played by Alfred Molina) and courageously smuggles herself and her daughter out of Iran. — Literary Hub, 29 June 2026