gnarl

Plural: gnarls

Noun

• something twisted and tight and swollen
  • "the old man's fists were two great gnarls"
• A knot in wood; a knurl or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
• Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.

Verb

Verb Forms: gnarled, gnarling, gnarls

• To twist or make knotty and deformed.
• twist into a state of deformity
  • "The wind has gnarled this old tree"
• make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath
• To knot or twist something.
• To snarl or growl; to gnar.

Adj

• Gnarled, knotty, twisted.

Examples

• The letters on my rack seemed to GNARL into unplayable combinations.

Synonyms

croak, grumble, knot, murmur, mutter

Anagrams of gnarl