as in to bark
to speak sharply or irritably
she snarled at me after I kept badgering her with questions
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as in to knot
to twist together into a usually confused mass
you'll be awfully sorry if you snarl your fishing line
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as in jam
a crowded mass (as of cars) that impedes or blocks movement
to no avail, the city promotes carpooling to help ease the traffic snarls that always accompany rush hour
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Recent Examples of snarl
Ben Berkowitz, Axios, 24 Dec. 2024
Light snow across central Indiana before dusk has caused traffic crashes that have snarled traffic across Indianapolis.
—Jade Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Dec. 2024
Glenn Adamson, ARTnews.com, 16 Dec. 2024
Another video, this one with 2.5 million views, manages to blow FromSoftware’s three-minute gameplay trailer out into a 40-minute dissection of each and every look, snarl, or skeleton.
—Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 17 June 2024
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The nationwide outage snarled early traffic on Christmas Eve for the world's largest carrier.
—Ben Berkowitz, Axios, 24 Dec. 2024
Light snow across central Indiana before dusk has caused traffic crashes that have snarled traffic across Indianapolis.
—Jade Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Dec. 2024
Noun
One approach, adopted by Lynda Benglis, Urs Fischer, and Christopher Wool, involves digitally capturing a chance form—a squeeze of clay, a snarl of wire—then enlarging that scan to monumental proportions, both dramatizing and satirizing the superpowers that artists now have at their disposal.
—Glenn Adamson, ARTnews.com, 16 Dec. 2024
Another video, this one with 2.5 million views, manages to blow FromSoftware’s three-minute gameplay trailer out into a 40-minute dissection of each and every look, snarl, or skeleton.
—Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 17 June 2024
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“Snarl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snarl. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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