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gnarled

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gnarled  (närld)
adj.
1. Having gnarls; knotty or misshapen: gnarled branches.
2. Morose or peevish; crabbed.
3. Rugged and roughened, as from old age or work: the gnarled hands of a carpenter.

[Probably variant of knarled, from knarl, tangle, knot, alteration of Middle English knarre, knot in wood; see knar.]

gnarled [nɑːld]
adj
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) having gnarls
2. (esp of hands) rough, twisted, and weather-beaten in appearance
3. perverse or ill-tempered
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.gnarled - used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
crooked - having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"

gnarled
adjective
1. twisted, knotted, contorted, knotty, knurled a garden full of ancient gnarled trees
2. wrinkled, rough, rugged, leathery an old man with gnarled hands
Translations
gnarled [nɑːld] ADJ [wood, hands] → nudoso

gnarled [ˈnɑːrld] adj
[tree] → noueux/euse
[person] → ratatiné(e); [hands] → noueux/euse

gnarled
adj tree, roots, branch, trunkknorrig; hands, fingersknotig; personverhutzelt; (= bent)krumm

gnarled [nɑːld] adjnodoso/a
gnarled [nɑːld] adjnodoso/a

gnarled
adj gnarled [naːld]
(of trees, branches etc) twisted. kwasterige, knoetserige مُعَقَّد، كثير العُقَد изкривен pokřivený, zkroucený kroget knorrig ροζιασμένος nudoso, retorcido pahklik پیچ خورده pahkurainen noueux מעוות ומפותל टेढ़ा ओर सख्त kvrgav bütykös berpilin-pilin kræklóttur nodoso ねじれた 비틀린 gumbuotas zarains; grumbuļains; (par rokām) mezglains berbonjol-bonjol knoestig kroket, forvridd, knudret sękaty, powykręcany retorcido noduros сучковатый hrčovitý, hrboľatý, drsný grčav kvrgav knotig, krokig ซึ่งเป็นตะปุ่มตะป่ำ eğri büğrü 扭曲的 сучкуватий, викривлений گٹّے یا گومڑا والا nhiều mấu


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The old woman was a gnarled and leathery personage who could don, at will, an expression of great virtue.
On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected.
There were fifty frightful men with hairy bodies and gnarled and crooked legs.
 
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