gnarled
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7.1
- adjective
- /ˈnɑːrld/
:
nudoso
- And the trees here were all time-gnarled oaks, nodding like ancient sages in the wind.
- a gnarled tree
Like perfect gnarled looking branch with like little lycan Moss on it.
- Like perfect gnarled looking branch with like little lycan Moss on it.
- A paperwhite without its perfume is like the intellect straining upward, knotty, gnarled, stewing in coffee colored waters.
- Fucking pour some sugar on me, you gnarled bitch.
- It's all just gnarled up in there in my chi and backed up in my little body Nuggets, man, my scrotum, my nuts.
Examples
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The old man had gnarled fingers from years of hard work in the fields.
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I kept speeding along on the blacktop road that was accentuated by overhanging, gnarled black branches.
Fiction book (1995) -
I turn my head slowly and see a gnarled, old hand resting on my shoulder.
Fiction book (1993) -
Grandma One Rock added a piece of thick, gnarled oak branch to the fire.
Fiction book (1993) -
Past sixty, his gray hair was thin and his fingers were gnarled and stiff.
Fiction book (1992) -
Rysta stabbed a button with a gnarled finger, and a chair rose out of the floor.
Fiction book (1992) -
His fingers were bony and gnarled, but his grip was surprisingly firm.
Fiction book (1995) -
The branches of the pecan trees were skeletal, like gnarled fingers against the moon.
Fiction book (1991) -
Faul appeared suddenly between two gnarled trees, their long spindly branches hanging out over the black mud.
Fiction book (1991) -
On the west, overhanging the stream, grew gnarled elder, willows, and double white cherries.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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8.4
A rough, twisted surface with hard knots or bumps
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7.0
Full of hard lumps and tangles, for example in wood or hair
Having rough, twisted bumps on wood or hands
Having many small round lumps on the surface
With rough parts that catch or tear other things
How Twisted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gnarled comes from the old word gnarl, which meant a hard wood 'knot' or 'bump'. So a gnarled tree, hand, or face looks twisted and rough like wood with many knots.