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SNARLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tangled in knots or snarls
Example:
snarled thread
Synonyms:
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Similar:
tangled (in a confused mass)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb snarl
Context examples:
He even ventured to raise his fist to me, but I was becoming animal-like myself, and I snarled in his face so terribly that it must have frightened him back.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Well, I won't, but I hate to see things going all crisscross and getting snarled up, when a pull here and a snip there would straighten it out.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The dogs dashed on, but at the threshold suddenly stopped and snarled, and then, simultaneously lifting their noses, began to howl in most lugubrious fashion.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
At this the man on the ground snarled up at him like a rat, while the other clenched his teeth, and shook his club, and looked down at him with murder in his eyes.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Couldn’t you?” he snarled.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Robber!" Mr. Ends snarled after him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But she only snarled at him, and he walked out alone into the bright sunshine to find the snow-surface soft under foot and the travelling difficult.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Twice his teeth clipped together, like the steel jaws of a trap, as he backed away for better footing, with lean and lifting lips that writhed and snarled.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Challenger and I ran Summerlee along, one at each of his elbows, while Lord John covered our retreat, firing again and again as savage heads snarled at us out of the bushes.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“See that you keep yourself out of my grip,” he snarled, and hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the room.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
