Wrangle
['ræŋg(ə)l] or ['ræŋɡl]
Definition
(v. i.) To argue; to debate; to dispute.
(v. i.) To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate.
(v. t.) To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.
(n.) An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Quarrel, bicker, spar, spat, jangle, jar, squabble, TIFF, have words, fall out, be at variance, have an altercation.
n. Quarrel, squabble, jangle, brawl, altercation, jar, bickering, contest, contention, controversy, wrangling, angry dispute.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Altercate, bicker, brawl, jangle, contend
ANT:Converse, confabulate, harmonize, accord
Checker: Lucille
Definition
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.
Typist: Wilhelmina
Examples
- Even if they wrangle, classes can talk together and understand each other. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A foolish wrangle followed; and Herncastle's unlucky temper got the better of him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The chance to hush it is to let in these people now in a wrangle with your footmen. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Who would do nothing but wrangle over their different opinions regarding one's work. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Would the session not become an interminable wrangle? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- However, we need not wrangle any more, for here we are at the gate of Melnos. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The sense of talk, buzzing, jarring, half-secret, the endless mining and political wrangling, vibrated in the air like discordant machinery. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was wrangled over for six weeks. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There at his bedside, shut up alone with him in his chamber, they wrought and wrangled over his exhausted frame. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Edited by Elise