The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - snarlэv.

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.