snarled
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- v  utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
                    
                        
                            
The guard snarled at us - v  make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise
                    
                        
                            
Bullets snarled past us - v twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
 - v make more complicated or confused through entanglements
 - s  tangled in knots or snarls
                    
                        
                            
snarled thread 
- Since President Ford announced the mass immunization effort last March, it has been snarled in confusion and controversy, including a hassle over whether the Government would .
 - Others snarled: "Cheest, you softy! They're trying to make you think they've quit, so they can nab you, sly like! The dirty, lousy bummers!".
 - It growled and snarled with mock fierceness or licked the hand that caressed it.