Meaning

13 senses
  1. (transitive)To convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending.

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

  3. (US, Western, transitive)To herd (horses or other livestock).

    herd and care for

  4. To herd (horses or other livestock).

    (US, Western, broadly, humorous, transitive)To manage or supervise (people).

    treiben

  5. (US, Western, figuratively, transitive)To gather and organize (data, facts, information, etc.), especially in a way which requires sentience rather than automated methods alone, as in data wrangling.

  6. (also, figuratively, intransitive)To quarrel angrily and noisily; to bicker.

    rangeln, streiten

    пререка́тьсяprerekátʹsja, спо́ритьspóritʹ, вздо́ритьvzdóritʹ

    to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively

  7. (intransitive)To make harsh noises as if quarrelling.

  8. (also, figuratively, intransitive)To argue, to debate; also (dated), to debate or discuss publicly, especially about a thesis at a university.

  9. (archaic, rare, transitive)To speak or write (something) in an argumentative or contentious manner.

  10. (archaic, rare, transitive)To spend (time) arguing or quarrelling.

  11. (obsolete, transitive)Followed by out of: to compel or drive (someone or something) away through arguing.

  12. (obsolete, transitive)Followed by out: to put forward arguments on (a case, a matter disagreed upon, etc.).

Examples

4 sentences
  1. They were wrangling.

    Вони сперечалися.

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  2. This contract dispute turned into a legal wrangle.

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  3. We are involved in a legal wrangle over payments.

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  4. The two scholars wrangled over the meaning of an obscure Tibetan phrase.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to herd (horses or other livestock); to manage or supervise (people):
to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker:

Origin

The verb is derived from Middle English wranglen, wrangle (“to contend with (someone) in a

The verb is derived from Middle English wranglen, wrangle (“to contend with (someone) in a test of strength; (figuratively) to make misleading arguments to entrap”); from a Middle Dutch or Middle Low German word related to Middle Dutch wrangen and Middle Low German wrangen (“to cause an uproar; to struggle, wrestle”) (whence Low German wrangeln (“to wrangle”)), related to Middle Dutch wringen (“to twist; to wrest; to wring; to struggle, wrestle”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wringaną (“to squeeze; to twist; to wring”).

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Forms

wrangles, wrangling, wrangled, wrangled
Base formwrangle · to wrangle
3rd person singularwrangles
Present participlewrangling
Past simplewrangled
Past participlewrangled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theywrangle
he, she, itwrangles

Past simpleLesson

all personswrangled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave wrangled
he, she, ithas wrangled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill wrangle

Synonyms

16 synonyms

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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