Usually means: Frown in an angry way.
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  1. scowl: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scowl: Merriam-Webster
  3. scowl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scowl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scowl: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scowl: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scowl, scowl: Wordnik
  8. scowl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scowl: Wiktionary
  10. scowl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scowl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scowl: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scowl: Dictionary.com
  14. scowl (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. scowl: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Scowl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Scowl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. scowl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. scowl: Rhymezone
  20. scowl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. scowl: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. scowl: FreeDictionary.org
  23. scowl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. scowl: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. scowl: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. SCOWL: Acronym Finder
  2. scowl: Idioms

(Note: See scowled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.
noun:  (by extension) Gloom; dark or threatening aspect.
verb:  (intransitive) To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
verb:  (intransitive, by extension) To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
verb:  (transitive) To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
verb:  (transitive) To express by a scowl.
noun:  (UK, dialect, obsolete) Old workings of iron ore.

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