wrangle — ozdic

Collocations

9

1

(noun.)

ADJ

bitter | complex | legal

VERB + WRANGLE

be involved in, get into, have

WRANGLE + VERB

ensue

continue, go on

The dispute between the neighbors went on for months before they finally agreed to sell the property.

PREP

in a/the ~

The neighbors got caught in a heated wrangle about the fence line between their properties.

~ between

There has been a bitter wrangle between the two neighbors over the garden fence.

~ over, ~ with

The neighbors have been wrangling over the garden fence for months.

Definitions

verb

1

To convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending.

2

Followed by out of: to elicit (something) from a person by arguing or bargaining.

[W]e vvrangled out of the King ten quarters of Corne for a copper Kettel, the vvhich the Preſident preceiving him much to affect, valued it at a much greater rate; […]

3

To speak or write (something) in an argumentative or contentious manner.

[H]e has taken in, Sir, the vvhole ſubject,— […] begging, borrovving, and ſtealing, as he vvent along, all that had been vvrote or vvrangled thereupon in the ſchools and porticos of the learned; […]

4

To spend (time) arguing or quarrelling.

5

To herd (horses or other livestock).

When she [Debbie Reynolds as Lucretia Rogers] tries to wrangle a calf, she ends up flat on her face in the barnyard muck.

noun

1

An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; an altercation.

For in that you would your awardship shuld take none effect, you shew your selfe nothing inclinable to the redresse of your brothers vnright dealinge wyth an honeste poore man, which hath bene redye at your request to doo you pleasure with his things, or els he had neuer come into this wrāgle for his own goods with your brother.

This vvould of Neceſſity, breed an infinite Number of Brangles and litigious Suits in the Spiritual Courts, and put the vvretched Paſtor at perpetual Variance vvith his vvhole Pariſh.

2

Angry disputation; noisy quarrelling.

Wrangle and bloodshed followed thence.

From this dialogue the assembly fell to wrangle, and broke up quarrelling.

3

A contentious argument or response.

4

A controversy.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)

haggle
haggling
wrangling

noun — an angry dispute

verb — to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively

brawl

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

6

01

[W]e vvrangled out of the King ten quarters of Corne for a copper Kettel, the vvhich the Preſident preceiving him much to affect, valued it at a much greater rate; […]

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02

[H]e has taken in, Sir, the vvhole ſubject,— […] begging, borrovving, and ſtealing, as he vvent along, all that had been vvrote or vvrangled thereupon in the ſchools and porticos of the learned; […]

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03

When she [Debbie Reynolds as Lucretia Rogers] tries to wrangle a calf, she ends up flat on her face in the barnyard muck.

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04

For in that you would your awardship shuld take none effect, you shew your selfe nothing inclinable to the redresse of your brothers vnright dealinge wyth an honeste poore man, which hath bene redye a

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05

This vvould of Neceſſity, breed an infinite Number of Brangles and litigious Suits in the Spiritual Courts, and put the vvretched Paſtor at perpetual Variance vvith his vvhole Pariſh.

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06

For many people this is an astonishing moment of hope, a moment they thought would never come. And there are many of course who feel a sense of anxiety and loss. And then of course there is a third gr

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, wrangle is marked as archaic, obsolete, rare, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.