Meaning & use
snarled
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Growled in an angry, threatening way, spoke with hostility, or became tangled and disordered.
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The dog snarled at the mail carrier through the fence.
Traffic snarled for miles after the accident on the highway.
A note on using this word
The traffic sense of "snarled" comes from the older meaning of tangled thread or hair, extended metaphorically to describe congested roads.
Words with a similar meaning
growledtangled
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Words with an opposite meaning
smoothed
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