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Definition of "gnarl" [gnarl]

  • To snarl; growl. (verb-intransitive)
  • A protruding knot on a tree. (noun)
  • To make knotted; twist. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "gnarl" in a sentence
  • "The wiggy 60s gnarl emanating from the speakers does not sound incomplete, however."
  • "Clarke: I don't think you saw all the gnarl that was there!"
  • "Consider, for instance the field lines of some magnets moving around each other, as shown in this video by Daniel Piker, who has a great blog of computational gnarl called Space Symmetry Structure."