v. 1 Often, snarl up. tangle, entangle, complicate, confuse, scramble, muddle, twist, mix or mess up, Colloq ball up, screw up This situation is so snarled up that we'll never straighten it out 2 tangle, entangle, knot, twist, ravel, jam, kink The rope won't feed through the pulley because it's all snarled
n. 3 tangle, entanglement, complexity, snag, problem, difficulty, complication, muddle, mess, predicament, fix, quandary, dilemma, Colloq snarl-up, tight spot, pickle The situation was full of snarls and problems 4 jungle, maze, labyrinth, knot The drain was clogged by a snarl of hair