Definitions for wrangle
ˈræŋ gəlwran·gle

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustupnoun

   an angry dispute

   "they had a quarrel"; "they had words"

2. haggle, haggling, wrangle, wranglingverb

   an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)

3. brawl, wrangleverb

   to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively

   "The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street"

4. wrangleverb

   herd and care for

   "wrangle horses"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wranglenoun

   An act of wrangling

2. wranglenoun

   An angry dispute

3. wrangleverb

   to bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily

4. wrangleverb

   to herd horses or other livestock

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wranglenoun

   A quarrel; a perverse dispute.

   Etymology: from the verb.

   The giving the priest a right to the tithe would produce law-suits and wrangles. Jonathan Swift.

2. To Wrangleverb

   Etymology: from wrangheseur, Dutch. Minshew. wrong, Stephen Skinner

   To dispute peevishly; to quarrel perversely; to altercate; to squabble.

   Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle,
   And I would call it fair play. William Shakespeare, Tempest.

   Some unhatch’d practice
   Hath puddled his clear spirit; and in such cases,
   Men’s natures wrangle with inferiour things,
   Though great ones are their object. William Shakespeare, Othello.

   How wounding a spectacle is it to see those who were by Christ designed for fishers of men, picking up shells on the shore, and unmanly wrangling about them too. Decay of P.

   In incompleat ideas we impose on ourselves, and wrangle with others. John Locke.

   Amongst unthinking men, who examine not scrupulously ideas, but confound them with words, there must be endless dispute and wrangling. John Locke.

   His great application to the law had not infected his temper with any thing litigious; he did not know what it was to wrangle on indifferent points. Joseph Addison, Freeholder.

   Fill’d with the sense of age, the fire of youth,
   A scorn of wrangling, yet a zeal for truth. Alexander Pope.

   And all the question, wrangle e’er so long,
   Is only this, if God has plac’d him wrong. Alexander Pope.

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1. wrangle

   Wrangle is a verb which means to engage in a long, complicated dispute or argument. It can also mean to herd and take care of (horses or livestock). Alternatively, it could refer to the act of round up, herd, or take charge of livestock, often used in a cowboy context.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wrangleverb

   to argue; to debate; to dispute

2. Wrangleverb

   to dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate

3. Wrangleverb

   to involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil

4. Wranglenoun

   an angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation

5. Etymology: [OE. wranglen to wrestle. See Wrong, Wring.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wrangle

   rang′gl, v.i. to make a disturbance: to dispute: to dispute noisily or peevishly.—n. a noisy dispute.—ns. Wrang′ler, one who wrangles or disputes angrily: (Shak.) a stubborn foe: in the University of Cambridge, one of those who have attained the first class in the public mathematical honour examinations; Wrang′lership.—adj. Wrang′lesome, given to wrangling.—n. Wrang′ling.—Senior wrangler, the student taking the first place in the class mentioned, the second being called Second wrangler, and so on in the same way. [A freq. of wring.]

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1. wangler

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of wrangle in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of wrangle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of wrangle in a Sentence

1. Jules Renard:

   It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.”

2. Bryan Wilson:

   As soon as I wrangle this beast, get it under control, it's going to be really good for business. It already is. I have already got a lot of clients.

3. Charles Caleb Colton:

   Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but--live for it.

4. George Ratiu:

   The Freddie Mac fixed rate for a 30-year loan has been moving up and down in the 6% to 7% range since September 2022 when it crossed the 6% threshold for the first time in 14 years, mortgage rates have mirrored the volatility in the 10-year Treasury, as investors wrangle mixed expectations amid an inflow of new economic numbers.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=wrangle
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wrangle
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=wrangle
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wrangle
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=wrangle