snarled

3 definitions found

snarled - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

snarled - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  snarled
      adj 1: tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string";
             "snarled thread" [syn: knotty, snarled, snarly]

snarled - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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