Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To knot or twist something.

    twist into a state of deformity

  2. (intransitive)To snarl or growl; to gnar.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. The tree had a gnarled bough.

    deDer Baum hatte einen knorrigen Ast. — Manfredo

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  2. The raven perched atop the eerie, gnarled tree.

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  3. The gnarled branches scraped and grasped for me like living hands.

    ruУзловатые ветви поскрипывали и тянулись ко мне, словно чьи-то руки, пытаясь ухватить. — Wezel

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

Back-formation from gnarled.

Back-formation from gnarled.

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Forms

gnarls, gnarling, gnarled, gnarled
Base formgnarl · to gnarl
3rd person singulargnarls
Present participlegnarling
Past simplegnarled
Past participlegnarled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygnarl
he, she, itgnarls

Past simpleLesson

all personsgnarled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gnarled
he, she, ithas gnarled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill gnarl

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
gluttongluttonousgluttonyglyphgnatgnawC1gnocchi

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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