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snarling en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Growling, having a snarl.
    • Mr. Trump’s campaign of retribution began to intensify in mid-July after an adviser stoked his snarling impatience over the slow pace of Justice Department investigations. 2025 September 27, “Inside the Trump Administration’s Push to Prosecute James Comey”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
    • The snarling dog scared me away without ever opening its mouth.

Deriveds

snarlingly

Synonyms

latrant

snarling en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The act of producing a snarl or growl.
    • When dogs fight, there are usually preliminaries to the actual combat — snarlings and bristlings and stiff-legged struttings. But White Fang learned to omit these preliminaries. 1906 May–October, Jack London, White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 3 (The Gods of the Wild), pages 144–145:

Forms

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snarlings Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (6)

ga drantán (the act of producing a snarl) · de knurrend (the act of producing a snarl) · cs zavrčení (the act of producing a snarl) · cs vrčení (the act of producing a snarl) · la hirrītus (the act of producing a snarl) · eo graŭlado (the act of producing a snarl)

snarling en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of snarl
    form of snarl