Meaning

5 senses

  1. (transitive)To entangle

  2. (intransitive)To become tangled; to become entangled

  3. (transitive)To block (traffic); to cause (traffic) to be congested.

  4. (intransitive)To become congested.

  5. (transitive)To put into disarray; contort; confuse; muddle up

More definitions
  • make more complicated or confused through entanglements

Examples

1 sentences

  1. The motorway is snarled up.

    deAuf der Autobahn gibt es Stau. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Forms

snarls up, snarling up, snarled up, snarled up
Base formsnarl up · to snarl up
3rd person singularsnarls up
Present participlesnarling up
Past simplesnarled up
Past participlesnarled up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysnarl up
he, she, itsnarls up

Past simpleLesson

all personssnarled up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave snarled up
he, she, ithas snarled up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill snarl up

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • make more complicated or confused through entanglements:snarlembrangle

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
snaresnarkysnarlsnatchsnatchersneakB2
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