smuggle

smuggle
verb
ADVERB
secretly
illegally
aboard, in, out

He managed to smuggle out a note from prison.

VERB + SMUGGLE
try to
manage to
PREPOSITION
across

Weapons are being smuggled across the border.

into

goods which have been smuggled into Spain

out of

Friends secretly smuggled him out of the country.

Smuggle is used with these nouns as the object: ↑immigrant, ↑weapon

Collocations dictionary. 2013.

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