| 单词 | snarl |
| 释义 | snarl (once / 699 pages) 1vn 2vn To snarl or make a snarl is to growl like an angry dog or speak abruptly and aggressively. A snarl can also be something tangled or confused. If you've ever heard a dog growl, then you know what a snarl is: a dog's snarl says, "Back off!" When people snarl, they speak in an angry way that isn't shouting but sounds mean. A human snarl is abrupt, sharp, and unfriendly. Another sense of the word is when something gets mixed up, like if wires get tangled together: that tangle is called a snarl. This meaning comes from the earliest use of snarl, "a snare or a noose." WORD FAMILYsnarl: ensnarl, snarled, snarling, snarls, snarly, unsnarl+/ensnarl: ensnarled, ensnarling/snarled: snarleder/unsnarl: unsnarled, unsnarling, unsnarls USAGE EXAMPLESGleaming with rain, it rose up snarling, as if struggling to escape the earth. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) It is wonderful to see Cushing, replete with snarling lip and piercing stare, back in the franchise that relaunched his career. The Guardian(Dec 16, 2016) Many Portland commuters left work early, hoping to beat the storm, but they were soon stuck in snarled traffic. Seattle Times(Dec 14, 2016) 1 1v make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise Bullets snarled past us Hyper go, sound make a certain noise or sound 2v utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone The guard snarled at us Syn|Hyper snap mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize express in speech 3n an angry vicious expression Hyper facial expression, facial gesture a gesture executed with the facial muscles 4n a vicious angry growl 2Hyper utterance, vocalization the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication 1v twist together or entwine into a confusing mass Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper entangle, mat, tangle disentangle, straighten out, unsnarl extricate from entanglement felt mat together and make felt-like enmesh, ensnarl, meshentangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh distort, twine, twist form into a spiral shape 2v make more complicated or confused through entanglements Syn|Hypo|Hyper embrangle, snarl up snafu cause to be in a state of complete confusion complicate, perplex make more complicated 3n something jumbled or confused Syn|Hyper maze, tangle perplexity trouble or confusion resulting from complexity |
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