Word Meanings - SMUGGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
smokkelen, G. schmuggeln, Dan. smugle, Sw. smyga to introduce or convey secretly, Dan. i smug secretly, D. smuigen to eat in secret, 1. To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by
Additional info about word: SMUGGLE
smokkelen, G. schmuggeln, Dan. smugle, Sw. smyga to introduce or convey secretly, Dan. i smug secretly, D. smuigen to eat in secret, 1. To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace. 2. Fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SMUGGLE)
- Pilfer
- Abstract
- peculate
- filch
- purloin
- smuggle
- cabbage
- steal
- thieve
- Steal
- Filch
- pilfer
- swindle
- take by theft
- embezzle
Related words: (words related to SMUGGLE)
- SMUGGLER
1. One who smuggles. 2. A vessel employed in smuggling. - PILFERY
Petty theft. Sir T. North. - ABSTRACTION
The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or - THIEVE
To practice theft; to steal. (more info) Etym: - EMBEZZLE
1. To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust. 2. To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance. - SWINDLER
One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat. Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages. - STEALINGLY
By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. Sir P. Sidney. - ABSTRACTEDLY
In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind. - STEALTH
1. The act of stealing; theft. The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw. Spenser. 2. The thing stolen; stolen property. "Sluttish dens . . . serving to cover stealths." Sir W. Raleigh. 3. The bringing to - PURLOINER
One who purloins. Swift. - ABSTRACTITIOUS
Obtained from plants by distillation. Crabb. - ABSTRACTNESS
The quality of being abstract. "The abstractness of the ideas." Locke. - CABBAGE
chou cobus headed cabbage, cabbage head; cf. It. capuccio a little head, cappuccio cowl, hood, cabbage, fr. capo head, L. caput, or fr. 1. An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The - PURLOIN
To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch. Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold. Milton. when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin Dryden. (more info) pur, por, pour, for + loin - STEALTHLIKE
Stealthy; sly. Wordsworth. - SWINDLERY
Swindling; rougery. "Swindlery and blackguardism." Carlyle. - ABSTRACTIONAL
Pertaining to abstraction. - PILFERING
Thieving in a small way. Shak. -- n. - STEALTHFUL
Given to stealth; stealthy. -- Stealth"ful*ly, adv. -- Stealth"ful*ness, n. - FILCHER
One who filches; a thief. - SUBPERIOSTEAL
Situated under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation , a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum. - PERIOSTEAL
Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum. - FIBROCHONDROSTEAL
Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. St. George Mivart.