Synonyms of smuggles

smuggles

verb

present tense third-person singular of smuggle

as in sells

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

They were arrested for smuggling drugs across the border.

Related Words

• sells
• distributes
• buys
• supplies
• barters
• transacts
• negotiates
• resells
• exchanges
• fences
• black-markets
• takes
• swaps
• bargains
• purchases
• auctions
• bootlegs
• peddles
• monopolizes
• horse-trades
• merchandises
• retails
• markets
• speculates
• engrosses
• invests
• wholesales
• corners
• vends
• trades
• picks up
• undersells
• rebuys
• traffics
• deals
• fair-trades
• day-trades

Dissimilar Words

• boycotts
• blacks
• blackballs

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of smuggles

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

Produced by Mabel Cheung, Good Trip is the story of a young woman who smuggles her terminally ill father out of a hospital to address his unfulfilled wishes. — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026

Angela, grieving for her family and friends gone in the war, smuggles goods along the front lines to make a living. — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 10 Mar. 2026

Hickinbottom smuggles the little kitten aboard his ship, the HMS Amethyst, and the crew obviously immediately falls in love with him and names the little tuxedo cat Simon. — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 27 Feb. 2026

Not everyone smuggles them into print in the form of an imaginary friend. — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025

According to Reforma, Rocha, a Mexican businessman who also serves as a consul of Guatemala in Mexico, is considered by FRG to be an alleged leader of a criminal organization that smuggles fuel in boats through the Usumacinta River and then in trucks to Querétaro, Mexico. — Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025

Having criticized the easy assumption that the international order will settle back into a natural balance, Prasad then smuggles in the idea of equilibrium again through the back door, left ajar by his firm faith in the market system. — Jamie Merchant, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2025