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Definition of gnarled in English: gnarledadjective nɑːldnɑrld Knobbly, rough, and twisted, especially with age. Example sentencesExamples - The wind howled in an unearthly never-ending scream, whistling through the gnarled, twisted trees.
- The disciples have gnarled hands, rough faces with the grime and sweat of an arduous day at their fishing nets.
- There was a picture in the paper I was reading of an old black woman, gnarled as an olive tree.
- From the tiny baby to the gnarled old man, the reward for living is the same: death.
- She held out her gnarled hands, as twisted and brown as the galls of a walnut tree.
- I followed them for at least a dozen meters before they ended at the foot of a gnarled old oak, the massive boughs wearing snow and ice.
- Imagine feeling a little bored while you're sketching a gnarled old boot in your art class.
- Donovan reached out and grasped the old woman's gnarled hand.
- I dreamt that we were old, really old, and we were walking with my gnarled old hand in yours.
- A gnarled old man is standing on the terracotta balcony of his home.
- She placated him, smoothing down his shoulder length hair with her rough and gnarled hands.
- The legs were gnarled and twisted, the left one bent at a crazy angle making the beast tip to one side slightly.
- They were old, and they were tall, crooked and gnarled from weather and from time.
- Her sister came away from the counter and sat down at one of the rough, gnarled chairs at the table.
- The trunk of the silver birch has always been too bent and gnarled for commercial use.
- The gnarled brown trees twisted into the earth and entwined each other in thick embraces.
- The old gnarled trees of the forest grew up to the edge of another bank, their roots jutting out into the deep water.
- He can make a haunting face peer from the gnarled old trunk of a great oak or fashion an oversized stag beetle from a lime tree.
- Renowned for its longevity, a gnarled, twisted olive tree can bear fruit for several hundred years.
- The rough surface and the gnarled features have become the distinctive marks of his works.
Synonyms knobbly, knotty, knotted, gnarly, lumpy, bumpy, nodular, rough twisted, bent, crooked, distorted, contorted rare knurled, nodulous, nodose twisted, bent, arthritic, misshapen knotty, rough, leathery, weather-beaten, weathered, wrinkled, wizened Scottish thrawn archaic wry
Origin Early 17th century: variant of knarled, from knar. Definition of gnarled in US English: gnarledadjectivenɑrldnärld Knobbly, rough, and twisted, especially with age. Example sentencesExamples - There was a picture in the paper I was reading of an old black woman, gnarled as an olive tree.
- She held out her gnarled hands, as twisted and brown as the galls of a walnut tree.
- The trunk of the silver birch has always been too bent and gnarled for commercial use.
- A gnarled old man is standing on the terracotta balcony of his home.
- I followed them for at least a dozen meters before they ended at the foot of a gnarled old oak, the massive boughs wearing snow and ice.
- I dreamt that we were old, really old, and we were walking with my gnarled old hand in yours.
- The old gnarled trees of the forest grew up to the edge of another bank, their roots jutting out into the deep water.
- Donovan reached out and grasped the old woman's gnarled hand.
- Her sister came away from the counter and sat down at one of the rough, gnarled chairs at the table.
- They were old, and they were tall, crooked and gnarled from weather and from time.
- Imagine feeling a little bored while you're sketching a gnarled old boot in your art class.
- The wind howled in an unearthly never-ending scream, whistling through the gnarled, twisted trees.
- The legs were gnarled and twisted, the left one bent at a crazy angle making the beast tip to one side slightly.
- The rough surface and the gnarled features have become the distinctive marks of his works.
- The gnarled brown trees twisted into the earth and entwined each other in thick embraces.
- From the tiny baby to the gnarled old man, the reward for living is the same: death.
- The disciples have gnarled hands, rough faces with the grime and sweat of an arduous day at their fishing nets.
- She placated him, smoothing down his shoulder length hair with her rough and gnarled hands.
- He can make a haunting face peer from the gnarled old trunk of a great oak or fashion an oversized stag beetle from a lime tree.
- Renowned for its longevity, a gnarled, twisted olive tree can bear fruit for several hundred years.
Synonyms knobbly, knotty, knotted, gnarly, lumpy, bumpy, nodular, rough twisted, bent, arthritic, misshapen
Origin Early 17th century: variant of knarled, from knar. |