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Word entry · 5 letters

snarl

Best crossword clue

"Tangled mess"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈsnɑː(ɹ)l/Part of speech verb, nounSorted alnrsStarts with SEnds with L1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. make more complicated or confused through entanglements

Word origin

From Middle English snarlen, frequentative of snaren (“to trap, tangle”). Equivalent to snare + -le.

Used in a sentence

  • to snarl a skein of thread
  • And from her backe her garments she did teare, / And from her head oft rent her snarled heare[…]
  • November 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, Sermon Preached at Stanford [the] question that they would have snarled him with

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