Groaned vs Snarled - What's the difference?
groaned | snarled |
(groan)
A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief.
A low, guttural sound uttered in frustration or disapproval.
To make a groan.
(obsolete) To strive after earnestly, as if with groans.
* Herbert
(snarl)
A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.
The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
A growl, as of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds
To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
* Spenser
To embarrass; to ensnare.
* Latimer
To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
* Dryden
As verbs the difference between groaned and snarled
is that groaned is (groan) while snarled is (snarl).groaned
English
Verb
(head)groan
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- We groaned at his awful jokes.
- The wooden table groaned under the weight of the banquet.
- Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, / Or that which groaneth to be so.
Anagrams
* * *snarled
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*snarl
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(wikipedia snarl)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (entangled situation) imbroglioVerb
(en verb)- to snarl a skein of thread
- And from her back her garments she did tear, / And from her head oft rent her snarled hair
- [the] question that they would have snarled him with
- It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted.