Snarled

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Snarl \Snarl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snarled}; p. pr. & vvb. n.
     {Snarling}.] [Etymol. uncertain.]
     To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal
     ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner
     surface.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  snarled
       adj : tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string";
             "snarled thread" [syn: {knotted}, {snarly}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "snarled":
     Byzantine, balled up, complex, complicated, confounded, confused,
     convoluted, crabbed, daedal, devious, disheveled, elaborate,
     embrangled, entangled, fouled up, implicated, intricate, involuted,
     involved, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up,
     many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, messed up, mixed up,
     mucked up, multifarious, mussed up, perplexed, ramified,
     roundabout, ruffled, rumpled, screwed up, shaggy, snaggy, subtle,
     tangled, tangly, tousled, tously, tumbled, twisted, uncombed