1. Tangled in knots or snarls
   "snarled thread";
   - knotty, snarly

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
   "The new regulations snarled up the approval process";
   - snarl up, embrangle [archaic]
    
5. Become tangled in traffic
   "The accident caused traffic to snarl for miles"

See also: tangled

Type of: complicate, distort, go, mouth, perplex, sound, speak, talk, twine, twist, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize

Encyclopedia: Snarl