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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To entangle in or as if in a snarl.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To snarl, as a dog; growl.
  • To entangle as in a snarl; insnare.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To entangle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To entangle.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh

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