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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE bitter ▪ Thus began a long and bitter wrangle between Beck and the private power interests. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ wrangles over the budget EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Bureaucratic wrangles were conspicuous ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wrangle \Wran"gle\, n. An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation. Syn: Altercation; bickering; brawl; jar; jangle; contest; controversy. See Altercation .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Low German wrangeln "to dispute, to wrestle," related to Middle Low German wringen , from Proto-Germanic *wrang- , from PIE *wrengh- , nasalized variant of *wergh- "to turn" (see wring ). Meaning "take charge of horses" is by 1897, American ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively; "The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street" [syn: brawl ] herd and care for; "wrangle horses"
Usage examples of wrangle.
Gradually, the French became more and more intransigent and this climaxed in 1292 when the papal throne became vacant and the French and Italian factions in the College of Cardinals cancelled each other out to the extent that they wrangled for two years without reaching agreement: no candidate achieved the required two-thirds majority.
TRUE: Well then, if I make them not wrangle out this case to his no comfort, let me be thought a Jack Daw or La-Foole or anything worse.
While in reality she had never even been able to wrangle the directorship of the Hempnell Student Players and had had to content herself with a minor position in the Speech Department.
And she would gain information of the singular nature of the young of the male sex in listening to the wrangle between Lord Fleetwood and Gower Woodseer on the subject of pocket-money for the needs of the Countess Carinthia.
Obstruct, perplex, distract, intangle, And lay perpetual trains to wrangle.
As the little male threw himself at the alpha, Alacrity wondered how much a night and a day of jostling and wrangling had weakened the contenders, and who had the edge.
Hearty merchants wrangled with their customers, apple-cheeked women in kirtles and wimples, or tall men with colorful liripipe hoods.
You should do a story on all the wrangling over the rezoning of this place.
Koch had finished his virulent and partly comic wrangle with Pasteur, who was just then with prodigious enthusiasm saving the lives of sheep and cattle in France, the discoverer of the tubercle bacillus started sniffing along the trail of one of the most delicate, the most easy to kill, and yet the most terribly savage of all microbes.
The unhappy doctor lost his temper in a confused wrangle and the jury looked at him with dislike and Waler frowned into his brief.
Work on the motorway came to a virtual standstill while the various authorities responsible for the preservation of Guildstead Carbonell and law and order on the one hand wrangled with those responsible for the construction of the motorway and the destruction of the village on the other.
Mingolla wrangled the Cuban sideways and rammed him against the wall, pinning him there.
Tears shed in her sleep cooled on her cheeks, and she discovered she had wrangled her bedding into a tangled wad.
While this curious crew wrangled, Venus stood gazing off into God knew where, covering up with her long tresses.
Antago traveled the twenty miles to Azul Island to spend the day wrangling the wild horses that inhabit that island.