Snarl

Definition: Snarl

Snarl

Noun

1. A vicious angry growl.

2. An angry vicious expression.

3. Something jumbled or confused; "a tangle of government regulations".

Verb

1. Utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone; `"No!," she snapped'; "The guard snarled at us".

2. Make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise; "Bullets snarled past us".

3. Twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord".

4. Make more complicated or confused through entanglements.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "snarl" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Industry

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Synonyms: Snarl

Discord

Quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie, squabble, altercation, barney, demel_, snarl, spat, towrow, words, high words; wrangling; Verb: jangle, brabble, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap; family jars.

Discourtesy

Lose one's temper; (resentment); sulk; la; frown, scowl, glower, pout; snap, snarl, growl.

Resentment

Pout, knit the brow, frown, scowl, lower, snarl, growl, gnarl, gnash, snap; redden, color; look black, look black as thunder, look daggers; bite one's thumb; show one's teeth, grind one's teeth; champ the bit, champ at the bit.

Threat

Verb: threat, threaten; menace; snarl, growl, gnarl, mutter, bark, bully.

Crosswords: Snarl

They snarl and come back (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

The Snarl of Hate (1927)

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Books

• Blood Snarl (reference)

• Children of the snarl & other poems (reference)

• The Snarl of the Beast (Gregg Press Mystery Fiction Series) (reference)

• The Snarl of the Lynx (Linford Mystery Library) [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  (more book examples)

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It is probable, that without it the prioress and Fauchelevent would never have got out of the snarl.

He was picking up the second rabbit when Casy came back with a snarl of bale wire in his hand

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Business

Within a decade, the telecommunications sector in Argentina has been transformed from a state-run snarl of inefficiency and losses to one of the most modern, innovative and profitable sectors of Argentina’s growing economy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "snarl": snarl at ♦ snarl up ♦ traffic snarl. Additional references.

Beginning with "snarl": snarl-gape, snarl-toothed, snarl-up, snarl-ups.

Ending with "snarl": half-snarl.

Afrikaans

afsnou (snap, snap at, snarl at, snub). (various references)

Albanian

ngatërroj (bedevil, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, disorient, disorientate, disturb, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, entangle, entrap, flummox, fuddle, garble, hash, immerse, implicate, intricate, involve, jerk off, jumble, lug in, make a hash of cutting, make a mess of, mess about, mistake, mix up, monkey, muddle, muddy, put out, Ravel, tamper, tie up), hungëroj (growl, grunt, scold). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هر الكلب مخرجا أسنانه, ‏تعقد (complexity, complicate, complication, entanglement, kink, tangle), ‏تشابك الخيوط, ‏تشابك (engage, entanglement, foul, interlock, ravel, tangle, texture, web), ‏زمجرة, ‏زمجر, ‏زحمة حركة المرور, ‏عقد تعقيدا شديدا, ‏عبر بزمجرة, ‏شىء معقد (complexity, intricacy), ‏دمدمة (growl, grumble, murmur, mutter, rumble). (various references)

Bulgarian 

усложнявам (complicate, elaborate, involve, perplex, tangle), ръмжене (growl), ръмжа (growl), омотавам (enlace, twine, wind), озъбване, озъбвам се (grin, show one's teeth), обърквам (abash, addle, baffle, bedevil, befuddle, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, disjoint, dislocate, distract, embarrass, embroil, flatten, flummox, fluster, foil, fuddle, gravel, jumble, maze, mess about, mess around, mess up, muddle, muff, muss, nonplus, obfuscate, overwhelm, perplex, pose, put off, put out, puzzle, sew up, stonker, throw out, tumble, vex, wilder), зъбя се (grin), зъбене (grin), заплитам (embrangle, embroil, enlace, tangle). (various references)

Chinese 

� �" (Entanglement, tangle, tangled, Tangling), �'吼 (bellow, rave). (various references)

Czech

zamotat (entangle, foul, tangle), zácpa (constipation), vrèet (be grumpy, grouch, grouse, growl, grumble, hum, purr, whir, whirr), vrèení (whir, whirr), bruèet (grouch, growl), bruèení. (various references)

Danish

løkke (loop, ring), knude (knot, node), fibersammenfiltring (kink). (various references)

Dutch

afsnauwen (snap at, snarl at, snub). (various references)

Esperanto

riproĉi malafable (snap at, snarl at, snub). (various references)

Farsi 

نمودارکردن (Unveil), کمند (Lariat, Lasso, Noose, Snare, Tether), گوریدگی (Ravel), گرفتاری (Ado, Assurance, Captivity, Constraint, Encumbrance, Hitch, Involvement, Mire, Plight, Scrape), گره خوردن (Knot), گره (Burr, Ganglion, Knob, Knot, Loop, Lump, Parcel, Snag, Tie), غرولندکردن (Begrudge, Complain, Groin, Squawk), تله (Grin, Hook, Noose, Pitfall, Quicksand, Snare, Train, Trepanation), خشمگین ساختن , شوریدگی , دندان قروچه کردن , بغرنجی (Compiexity, Intricacy), بغرنج کردن (Complicate, Ensnare), برجسته کردن (Emboss, Indent, Signalize). (various references)

Finnish

murista (growl), murina (growl), murahtaa (growl), äristä (growl). (various references)

French

enchevêtrement. (various references)

Frisian

ôfsnuterje (snap at, snarl at, snub), ôfgrauwe (snap at, snarl at, snub). (various references)

German

knurren (groan, growl, growls, moan, rumble, rumbling, to snarl). (various references)

Greek 

μπέρδεμα (complication, confusion, jumble), θηλιά (loop, noose, slip knot, tab), ουρλιάζω (bellow, blare, clamor, clamour, holler, howl, rave, ululate, yell, yelp, yowl), ούρλιασμα (cat call, yelp, yowl), τσίγκλιασμα (kink), εμπλέκομαι (be involved in, involve), δείχνω τα δόντια απειλητικά (bare one's teeth), περιπλοκή (complexity, complication, entanglement, imbroglio, intricacy, involvement, mystification, perplexity), συστροφή (contortion, torsion, twine, twirl, twist, wring), γρίνια, γρυλίζω, γρινιάζω, γρύλισμα, στρίψη (kink, twist), στρίψιμο (torsion, turn, twist), εμπλέκω (enmesh, implicate, involve, tangle). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"סתבך (ball up, get involved, tangle), תסבוכת (complexity, complication, mix up, tangle), פלו� טר (tangle), רטון (complaining, grumbling), � �"ימ�" (cooing, growling, moaning, roar). (various references)

Hungarian

vicsorgás, zavar (abashment, annoy, awkwardness, bafflement, bewilderment, bother, confusion, difficulties, discomfiture, discomposure, disorder, disorientation, disturb, disturbance, embarrassment, fermentation, harass, hitch, interfere, jam, mess-up, nonplus, perplexity, perturbation, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, self-consciousness, shuffling, to discommode, to disturb, to fluster, to get into sy's hair, to get under one's skin, to incommode, to inconvenience, to put to it), morgás (bitch, crabbing, droning, grouch, grousing, growl, grumble, grumbling, grunt, mumbling, muttering), csomó (batch, bed, bunch, bundle, clod, clot, clump, cluster, gnarl, hitch, kink, knag, knar, knob, knot, node, nodule, nub, nugget, parcel, Peck, pile, snag, snick, tie, tuft, wart), bonyodalom (complication, intrigue, involvement, knot, node, Nodus, ravel, story, tangle, tangled skein). (various references)

Indonesian

menggertak (bluff, bluster, browbeat, buffalo, bully, goash, snap at, spur, threaten), membelasut (growl), gerantang (din, racket), belasut (growl), aring (lasso, trap). (various references)

Italian

ringhiare (growl, growls). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

縺れ (difficulties, entanglement, snag, tangle, trouble). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

もつれ (difficulties, entanglement, snag, tangle, trouble). (various references)

Korean 

혼란 (Confusion). (various references)

Manx

gyrnal (grin, grinning, growl, snarling), gyrn (grin, growl), grinderagh (grumble, mock, sarcastic, satirical, satirist, taunting). (various references)

Pig Latin

arlsnay.(various references)

Portuguese

emaranhamento (entanglement, matting, ravel, tangle). (various references)

Romanian

vorbi cinic, rânji (grin, simper, smirk, sneer), mormãit (groan, growl, grumbling, grunt, mumble, mumbling, mutter, muttered, muttering), mormãi (drone, groan, grouse, grudge, grumble, grunt, mumble, mutter), mârâit, mârâi (growl). (various references)

Russian 

рычать рычание (growl), рычать (growl, snarls), ворчать (croak, grouse, growl, grumble, grunt, nag, natter). (various references)

Scottish

draing (a snarl). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uvrnuti (screw, twist), režati (growl), režanje (growl), kazati režećim glasom. (various references)

Spanish

gruñido (croak, growl, grunt). (various references)

Swedish

morra (growl). (various references)

Thai

เสียงขู่คำราม, เห่า, �"ุ�"่าอย่างเกรี้ยวกรา�". (various references)

Turkish

söylenmek (be said, be told, chide, complain, fret and fume, grouch, grouse, grumble, make a noise, murmur, repine, snarl at), söylenme (being told, complaining, grouch, grumble, murmur), sinirle söylemek, karışıklık (bedlam, bungle, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disturbance, dogs dinner, embroilment, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, imbroglio, indiscrimination, intricacy, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mess, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, perturbation, pie, pother, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, riot, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl up, stir, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, tumble, turbidity, turbulence, unrest, upheaval, upset, wooliness, woolliness), arapsaçına çevirmek (cock up, tangle), birbirine girmek (tangle with), birbirine katmak, hırıltı yapmak (pur, purr, rattle), hırlamak (growl, snarl at), homurdanma (crab, grouch, grumble, grumbling, mutter, snort), arapsaçı (dogs dinner, elflock, skein, spaghetti, tangle, tangled skein, woolly hair), homurtu (growl, grunt, murmur, mutter), karıştırmak (add, admix, amalgamate, blend, churn, commingle, commix, complicate, concoct, confound, confuse, darken, diffuse, disarrange, disarray, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, disturb, embroil, entangle, ferret about, foul, foul up, hash, implicate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, involve, inweave, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, knot, litter, make hay of smth., meld, mess, mess smth. about, mess up, mingle, mistake, mix, mix up, monkey around with, monkey with, muddle, muss, pick, poke, poke up, Ravel, ruffle, scramble, scramble together, scramble up, shuffle, stir, stir up, tamper with, tangle, tousle, trim, tumble, unsettle, weave), kargaşa (anarchism, anarchy, Babel, broil, chaos, coil, commotion, confusion, disarray, disorder, disturbance, earthquake, grab bag, hurly burly, moil, muss, pell mell, pellmell, rag bag, riot, rough and tumble, roughhouse, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shemozzle, sound and fury, squall, storm, tailspin, tempest, tumult, turbulence, uproar, welter), karmakarışık olmak (fall into confusion, foul up), keşmekeş (blight, chaos, conflict, confusion, disorder, rat race, snarl up), homurdanmak (grouch, grouse, grumble, grunt, murmur, mutter, snarl at, snort). (various references)

Ukrainian

сплутуватися (balter), вузол (bale, knot, node, tie, twist), заманити в западню (snare), западня (deadfall, leash, net, snare), плутати (addle, ball, bedevil, muddle, perplex, wander), плутанина (boggle, confusion, derangement, embroilment, hubbub, hurly burly, intricacy, involute, jumble, maze, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mix up, muddle, muss, patchwork, pell mell, pellmell, puddle, skein, snarl up, tangle, wooliness, woolliness). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sức tắc nghẽn giao thông, sự rối beng, tiếng cằn nhằn, mớ bòng bong tình trạng xe cộ ùn lại, chỗ thắt nút (kink), chỗ nối tình trạng lộn xộn, cái nút (gag, stopple). (various references)

Welsh

ysgyrnygu (grind the teeth), chwyrnu (hum, snore), chwyrniad (snore, snoring). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "snarl": snarled, snarler, snarlers, snarlier, snarliest, snarling, snarls, snarly. (additional references)

Words ending with "snarl": ensnarl, unsnarl. (additional references)

Words containing "snarl": ensnarled, ensnarling, ensnarls, unsnarled, unsnarling, unsnarls. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Snarl" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Esnal, narl, Nsra, Searl, snair, snal, snard, snarf, snarg, snark, snarle, snarp, snerl, snork, snurk, snurl, snurp. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lars.

-2 letters: als, ars, lar, las, ran, ras, sal.

-3 letters: al, an, ar, as, la, na.

+1 letter: gnarls, learns, lorans, lunars, snarls, snarly.

+2 letters: aldrins, aliners, almners, anglers, antlers, arsenal, carlins, darnels, ensnarl, insular, ladrons, lancers, landers, langurs, lanners, lardons, leaners, loaners, lurdans, marlins, nailers, narwals, normals, planers, prolans, raglans, rankles, ranulas, ratlins, reloans, renails, rentals, replans, saltern, slander, slurban, snarled, snarler, sternal, unsnarl, uranyls, urinals.

+3 letters: adrenals, ailerons, airlines, aleurons, alieners, alienors, aligners, almoners, alphorns, althorns, analyser, arsenals, asternal, blarneys, brasilin, caldrons, candlers, carlines, carlings, centrals, charnels, cislunar, clangers, clangors, clarions, cleaners, cleanser, consular, coronals, courlans, crankles, dandlers, danglers, darlings, diurnals, enablers, engrails, enlarges, enslaver, ensnarls, enthrals, entrails, eternals, farnesol, flaneurs, flangers, flankers, frontals, funerals, gangrels, garlands, generals, glancers, glanders, gleaners, goldarns, granolas, granules, graplins, grapnels, handlers, inhalers, inlayers, insulars, inthrals, islander, janglers, journals, klaverns, lacunars, ladrones, lanciers, landlers, langrels, languors, laniards, lanterns, lanyards, lardoons, larynges, larynxes, latrines, launders, learners, lucarnes, lupanars, lurdanes, mandrels, mandrils, manglers, marlines, marlings, mensural, minerals, mislearn, nargiles, narwhals, naturals, neurosal, neurulas, neutrals, nonsolar, norlands, numerals, ordinals, orinasal, ortolans, personal, planners, planters, plastron, polarons, pralines, preplans, psoralen, purslane, railings, rainless, rassling, ratlines, ravelins, realigns, realness, recleans, relaxins, relearns, renewals, repanels, replants, retinals, rimlands, ringhals, rinsable, salterns, scrannel, shrapnel, signaler, singular, slanders, slangier, slattern, snarlers, snarlier, snarling, solander, sovranly, spandrel, spandril, sparling, springal, starling, strangle, sublunar, supernal, tanglers, telerans, tonsilar, trenails, trolands, unlearns, unravels, unsnarls, ventrals, wanglers, warsling, wrangles.