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/rˈæŋgəl/ Listen

noun

Wrangle n. An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation.

Synonyms: Altercation; bickering; brawl; jar; jangle; contest; controversy. See Altercation.

verb

Wrangle v. t. To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil. (R.)

Wrangle v. i. (past & past part. wrangled; pres. part. wrangling)

To argue; to debate; to dispute. (Obs.)

To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate. "In spite of occasional wranglings." "For a score of kingdoms you should wrangle." "He did not know what it was to wrangle on indifferent points."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wrangle" Quotes from Famous Books

... Alban would not wrangle with him, and for a little while he ate in silence, watching the sparkling throng and listening to such scraps of conversation as floated to him from merry tables. Down in Union Street it had been the fashion to decry idleness and the crimes of the rich—the orators having it that leisure was ...

— Aladdin of London - or Lodestar • Sir Max Pemberton

... imminent but actual. The whole effort to support a Christian education in the public schools is sometimes called a "bootless wrangle." One section is thrown over towards secularism, pure and simple, in recoiling from Church-education exclusive and reactionary. The leading of the little child, the favorite indication of the millennium's arrival, is frustrated amid the clamor of the free thinkers and the uncertainty ...

— Colleges in America • John Marshall Barker

... at each other and the two speakers in mute surprise. But they saw nothing in the words beyond a personal wrangle—though even that was such a novelty as to arrest instant attention. I busied myself with my plate. The Director assumed his harshest tone, and asked the cause of the altercation. Abonus leaned over and whispered something in his ear. I remember next a room full of confusion, ...

— Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 • Various

... to his room, leaving the others, most of whom had been drinking somewhat freely, to wrangle about his proceedings. It ended in two of them going ...

— Light Freights • W. W. Jacobs

... circuit, in every charge, you will find the Parsonage Aid Society a band of faithful, fretted, good housekeepers who worry and wrangle over furnishing the parsonage as they worried and wrangled when they were little girls over their communistic "playhouses." The effects in the parsonage are not harmonious, of course. As a rule, every piece of furniture in it contradicts every other piece, each having been contributed by ...

— A Circuit Rider's Wife • Corra Harris

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