SNARLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snarled mean? 

• SNARLED (adjective)
  The adjective SNARLED has 1 sense:

1. tangled in knots or snarls

  Familiarity information: SNARLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNARLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tangled in knots or snarls

Synonyms:

knotty; snarled; snarly

Context example:

snarled thread

Similar:

tangled (in a confused mass)

 Context examples 

"Don't talk to me," Martin snarled.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The cub snarled a little at the touch of the hand, and the hand flew back to administer a clout.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

An AVM is a snarled tangle of arteries and veins.

(Arteriovenous Malformations, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

The other snarled aloud into a savage laugh; and the next moment, with extraordinary quickness, he had unlocked the door and disappeared into the house.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He hesitated, stammered, repeated himself, got snarled in a long sentence, and finally turned furiously upon the cause of his troubles.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here and there savage dogs rushed upon him, but he bristled his neck-hair and snarled (for he was learning fast), and they let him go his way unmolested.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

‘I can promise you the one, but not the other,’ he snarled, and so turned his rounded back upon me, and went peering and blinking out of the room.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You senseless goose! snarled the dwarf; why should you fetch someone?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“I suppose you know all about it,” he snarled.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Remote and alien as a traveller from another planet, he snarled down their soft-spoken love-words.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)