Word Finder - snarl

definition

A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.

synonyms

• entanglement

definition

An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.

definition

A slow-moving traffic jam.

definition

To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.

example

to snarl a skein of thread

definition

To become entangled.

definition

To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.

definition

To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.

definition

To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.

I heard her snarl from behind the wooden door.

Then, she added with a snarl, "Yet."

She heard the beastly snarl and caught the blurred mass of darkness, punctuated only by two flashes of silver, as Rhyn flew by her.

She nestled herself comfortably in Dorothy's lap until the kitten gave a snarl of jealous anger and leaped up with a sharp claw fiercely bared to strike Billina a blow.

Shipton's ax bit the ice scarcely a foot below Dean as the man glared up at him, a snarl on his face.

The respectable mediocrity of Chapelain might misapprehend him; the lesser geniuses of Scudery and Mairet might feel alarm at his advent; the envious Claverets and D'Aubignacs might snarl and scribble.

Martha gave her husband a searing snarl and reminded him it was Howie's life and not ours.

The storm continued to flood homes and snarl traffic this weekend.

It jerked suddenly and bolted down the hallway with a snarl.

With a snarl of contempt he turned upon his heel, and I saw his curved back and white side-whiskers disappear among the throng.

Then, with a snarl of anger, he left me and entered the cottage from which I had just come.

The routine of talking seems to snarl up a polite, well-spoken man.

The tone was not as loud as before, but near a snarl.

Sensing her fear, he moved closer, his teeth bared in an ugly snarl.

She did not writhe in pain, nor snarl, nor foam at the mouth.

Pin sharp through the corners it bursts out the other side with a snarl from the underseat exhaust.

But the competition to beat the traffic snarl won the day.

Suddenly I felt my bed shake, and a wolf seemed to spring on me and snarl in my face.

He knew the return trip would be far different, crawling his way back in the snarl of rush hour.

She said it with a snarl, and then dropped her eyes.

We are disposed to agree with the Brazilian historian Constancio that Maranon is derived from the Spanish word marana, a tangle, a snarl, which well represents the bewildering difficulties which the earlier explorers met in navigating not only the entrance to the Amazon, but the whole island-bordered, river-cut and indented coast of the now Brazilian province of Maranhao.