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to wrangle
01
to have a noisy and intense argument
Intransitive: to wrangle | to wrangle with sb
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
wrangle
3rd person singular
wrangles
Present participle
wrangling
Past simple
wrangled
Past participle
wrangled
Examples
The siblings would often wrangle over who would get to choose the television channel.
02
to herd or manage horses or other livestock
Transitive: to wrangle livestock
Examples
The cowboy wrangled the cattle across the open prairie.
Wrangle
01
a prolonged and complicated argument or dispute, often involving a lot of discussion and disagreement
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
wrangles
Examples
The wrangle over the contract terms delayed the start of the project.
02
an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
Lexical Tree
wrangler
wrangling
wrangle
