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1. Utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
   "The guard snarled at us"
   - snap
    
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 snarled the cord"
   - entangle, tangle, mat
    
4. Make more complicated or confused through entanglements
   - snarl up, embrangle

1. A vicious angry growl
    
2. An angry vicious expression
    
3. Something jumbled or confused
   "a snarl of government regulations"
   - tangle, maze

Derived forms: snarled, snarling, snarls

See also: snarly

Type of: complicate, distort, facial expression, facial gesture, go, mouth, perplex, perplexity, sound, speak, talk, twine, twist, utter, utterance, verbalise [Brit], verbalize, vocalization

Antonym: unsnarl

Encyclopedia: Snarl