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snarling

snarling adjective: growling, having a snarl. Also the present participle and gerund of snarl.

Adjective

snarling

  1. Growling, having a snarl.
    • The snarling dog scared me away without ever opening its mouth.
    • Mr. Trump’s campaign of retribution began to intensify in mid-July after an adviser stoked his snarling impatience over the slow pace of Justice Department investigations.2025 September 27, “Inside the Trump Administration’s Push to Prosecute James Comey”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    latrant

Noun

snarling (plural snarlings)

  1. The act of producing a snarl or growl.
    • When dogs fight, there are usually preliminaries to the actual combat — snarlings and bristlings and stiff-legged struttings. But White Fang learned to omit these preliminaries.1906 May–October, Jack London, White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 3 (The Gods of the Wild), pages 144–145

Also used as

snarling is also the present participle and gerund of snarl.

Synonyms of snarling

Forms of snarling

pluralsnarlings

Words formed from snarling

Phrases with snarling

Questions about snarling

What does snarling mean?
Snarling means growling, having a snarl.
What part of speech is snarling?
Snarling can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near snarling in the dictionary

  1. snarlers
  2. snarlest
  3. snarleth
  4. snarlier
  5. snarliest
  6. snarling
  7. snarling iron
  8. snarling irons
  9. snarling up
  10. snarlingly
  11. snarlings

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