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snarl has 7 distinct synonyms spread across 4 of its 7 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is unsnarl.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise
“Bullets snarled past us”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for snarl come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
make more complicated or confused through entanglements
an angry vicious expression