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Snarled   /snˈɑrəld/   Listen
verb
Snarl  v. t.  (past & past part. snarled; pres. part. snarling)  To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.


Snarl  v. t.  
1.
To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl a skein of thread. "Her snarled hair."
2.
To embarrass; to insnare. "(The) question that they would have snarled him with."


Snarl  v. i.  
1.
To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds. "An angry cur snarls while he feeds."
2.
To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms. "It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted."





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"Snarled" Quotes from Famous Books



... and I am not going to, either. It's just a misunderstanding, Mrs. Sniff. I could go away and let it rest there, but I fear I've been away too much and things have got snarled. ...
— At the Crossroads • Harriet T. Comstock
... and perplexity now increased every moment, and he quickened his steps towards his own dwelling; he hardly knew it, it was so much decayed; and before the door lay a strange goatherd's boy, with a dog apparently at the last extreme of age, that snarled when he spoke to him. He entered the house through an opening, which had formerly been closed by a door. All was waste and void within; he staggered out as if he had lost his senses, calling on his wife and children by their names; but no one heard—none answered. Before long, ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 12, Issue 346, December 13, 1828 • Various
... "Depends on what the wife is up to." The steward leaning against the bulkhead near the door glowered at Powell, that newcomer, that ignoramus, that stranger without right or privileges. He snarled: ...
— Chance • Joseph Conrad
... will," he snarled. "You are a rotten, treacherous, cowardly race, you English, and I hate you all. You can kill me first, if you will, but in two months' time you shall learn what it is like to wait hand and ...
— The Double Traitor • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... to, miss!" snarled her stepfather. "When we married we mixed our furniture up together—mixed it up so that it would be impossible to tell which is which. ...
— Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection) • W.W. Jacobs


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