Usually means: Angry growl from an animal.
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  1. snarl: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. snarl, snarl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. snarl, snarl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. snarl: Collins English Dictionary
  5. snarl: Vocabulary.com
  6. Snarl, snarl: Wordnik
  7. snarl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. snarl: Wiktionary
  9. snarl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. snarl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. snarl: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. snarl: Dictionary.com
  13. snarl (v.1), snarl (v.2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. snarl: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Snarl (Transformers), Snarl (disambiguation), Snarl (software), Snarl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Snarl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. snarl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. snarl: Rhymezone
  19. snarl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. snarl: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SNARL: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. snarl: Free Dictionary
  23. snarl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. snarl: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. snarl: Legal dictionary

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  2. snarl: Idioms

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  1. snarl: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See snarled as well.)

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verb:  (transitive) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
verb:  (intransitive) To become entangled.
verb:  (transitive) To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
verb:  To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface; to repoussé
noun:  A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
noun:  An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
noun:  A slow-moving traffic jam.
verb:  (intransitive) To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
verb:  (transitive) To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
verb:  (intransitive) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
noun:  The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
noun:  A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
noun:  A squabble.

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