0 present participle of snarl
1 (especially of dogs) to make a deep, rough sound while showing the teeth, usually in anger or (of people) to speak or say something angrily and forcefully:
The dogs started to snarl at each other so I had to separate them.
[ + speech ] "Go to hell!", he snarled.
2 to become twisted together and difficult to separate; to make something become twisted together :
A chair, for example, affords for an adult the options of sitting on, standing on, or even hoisting as a defense against snarling dogs.
He duly did, creating a language appropriate to these gruff, snarling warrior aliens (see panel).
Her snarling mouth reveals, in addition to her teeth, both her social class and her intemperate vitality.
Whining, groaning, grating, gurgling, snarling, even screeching, could all make telling contributions where appropriate.
There is bickering, snarling and wrangling among them all the time.
He is snarling and worse than any being from outer space.
It is therefore very difficult to take out of those numbers the relatively small number of compulsory redundancies without snarling up the entire programme.
We in our area are fast snarling up rather than moving out.
