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Meanings of gnarly in anglès

Used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots.

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Usage of gnarly in anglès
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Then there's the gnarly question of who do the emissions belong to?
Reuters
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The really gnarly part is the neither-fish-nor-fowl nature of the show itself.
Wired
3
They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at.
Wild Apples
4
Suffering with redness or have a surprise visit from a gnarly pimple?
News.com.au
5
Imagine a bad fall resulting in injury, or a gnarly, unexpected storm.
Climbing Magazine
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Modem21 Video projectors look simple on the outside, but they're gnarly beasts inside.
Wired
7
As far as gnarly scars went, this one was a Hall of Famer.
The wave: in pursuit of the rogues, freaks and giants of the oce...
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Remember that gnarly first ascent of a billboard in Time Square?
Climbing Magazine
9
The latter had been shaved and smoothed over every gnarly place.
The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross / Or, Amateur The...
10
It's so gnarly, I can hardly pull off the ground on some days.
Rock and Ice Magazine
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The trees were easy to climb, having huge, gnarly low limbs.
For Love Of Evil
12
He reached out and caught them by their skinny, gnarly arms.
The Tangle Box
13
I came back to Squamish with this gnarly overuse injury in my wrist.
Climbing Magazine
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It mushroomed out into an umbrella shape made of gnarly roots.
Death angel
15
There's just enough overspray to keep the plants from getting gnarly.
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway
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The upshot is a gnarly black armour that protects it from being crushed.
The Guardian
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