snarling

Definitions

1. 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.
2. 2

   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.
3. 3

   present participle and gerund of snarl

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