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• v  twist into a state of deformity
  The wind has gnarled this old tree
• v  make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath
• s  used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
  gnarled and knotted hands

• For one gnarled veteran trawling Tuggerah Lake, actually a smallish freshwater lagoon situated about 90 km north of Sydney, that moment came just over an hour before sunrise on .
• Hundreds of marchers wound through the capital's traffic-gnarled streets pumping their fists and chanting, "O freedom, where are you, where are you?.
• Visually, too, the movie is in love with Barcelona, its gnarled Gaudi buildings, and with the countryside of Ovieto, a hundred shades of glorious earth tones.

• gnarl
• murmur
• mutter
• grumble
• croak
• gnarly
• knotted
• knotty
• knobbed

News & Articles

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• Black Forest evacuees, victims get first glance at fire's destruction
  The only thing Steve Boone could pull from the ash was a scorched hammer. It had been three days since he fled his home, and less than 24 hours since he saw the first photos of his crumbling foundation and gnarled deck railings.
  June 15, 2013 - Denver Post
• Roadster resurrected: Man spends 20 years rebuilding pre-Depression luxury vehicle
  Charles Aron knew he was in for a nearly impossible project when he hauled the rusted, gnarled mass of metal out of his father's horse pasture in 1990.
  June 15, 2013 - Great Falls Tribune
• Largest paraclimbing competition in US history at Vail GoPro Games
  Philippe Ribiere rubbed chalk on his gnarled hands and spread himself across tiny holds on the climbing wall.
  June 10, 2013 - Denver Post

Quotes

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• Keith Richards in MSNBC
  It's embarrassing, really,Richards, 62, says in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone magazine. "I was sitting on this gnarled shrub about six feet off the ground. I was wet - I'd been swimming. I hit the ground the wrong way, my head hit...
• Tiger Wood in FOXSports.com
  I made my best swing I made all week on 15,said Woods. "I couldn't believe I hit it that far, and then when I got back over there, it was kind of a gnarled lie, into the grain."
• Humpy Wheeler in ThatsRacin.com
  The mystery is why Dale and Jeff never became bitter rivals because they were made to be,Wheeler said. "Gordon was the young whippersnapper trying to take the gnarled veteran's place. That usually causes the sparks to fly. That ranks as...