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Snarl   /snɑrl/   Listen
Snarl

noun
1.
A vicious angry growl.
2.
An angry vicious expression.
3.
Something jumbled or confused.  Synonyms: maze, tangle.
verb
(past & past part. snarled; pres. part. snarling)
1.
Utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone.  Synonym: snap.  "The guard snarled at us"
2.
Make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise.
3.
Twist together or entwine into a confusing mass.  Synonyms: entangle, mat, tangle.  Antonyms: disentangle, unsnarl.
4.
Make more complicated or confused through entanglements.  Synonyms: embrangle, snarl up.



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"Snarl" Quotes from Famous Books



... enabled to renew last year's acquaintance with them, though without a good interpreter not much progress was made. The delight of these people at the road-house phonograph, the first they had ever heard, was some compensation for the incessant snarl and scream of the instrument itself. It was very funny to see them sitting on the floor, roaring with laughter at one particularly silly spoken record of the "Uncle Josh at the World's Fair" order. Over and over again they would ask for that record, ...
— Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled - A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska • Hudson Stuck

... long, disconnected yarns, to which Milton could make neither head nor tail, and which grew at last to be inaudible to him, just as the steady boom and snarl of the great machine did. Then he fell to studying the old man's clothes, which were a wonder to him. He spent a good deal of time trying to discover which were the original sections of the coat, and especially of the vest, which was ragged and yellow with age, with the cotton batting working out; ...
— Other Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland

... looked at her, then his lips curled in an ugly snarl, and, dashing her hand aside, he leaped forward in swift fury and grasped her white throat ...
— Under the Andes • Rex Stout

... of the porches, all day long, knots of men of the lowest classes, unemployed and listless, lie basking in the sun like lizards; and unregarded children,—every heavy glance of their young eyes full of desperation and stony depravity, and their throats hoarse with cursing,—gamble, and fight, and snarl, and sleep, hour after hour, clashing their bruised centesimi upon the marble ledges of the church porch. And the images of Christ and His angels look down upon ...
— Stones of Venice [introductions] • John Ruskin

... Uttering a snarl at the interruption, the animal made a leap and accomplished what the roper had failed to accomplish. He leaped right into the loop with his head and one leg. His spring drew the lasso tightly about him. He was fast, but he ...
— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers • Jessie Graham Flower


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