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SNARL UP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does snarl up mean?
• SNARL UP (verb)
The verb SNARL UP has 1 sense:
1. make more complicated or confused through entanglements
Familiarity information: SNARL UP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make more complicated or confused through entanglements
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
Hypernyms (to "snarl up" is one way to...):
complicate; perplex (make more complicated)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "snarl up"):
snafu (cause to be in a state of complete confusion)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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