wrangle

1. 1.

   to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively

   “The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street”

   Synonymsbrawl

   Broaderquarrel
2. 2.

   herd and care for

   “wrangle horses”

   Broaderherd

Other forms of wrangle

plural

wrangles·

past tense

wrangled·

present participle

wrangling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wrangle

What does wrangle mean?

wrangle means "an angry dispute". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wrangle?

wrangle has 2 syllables: wran-gle. The stress falls on "wran". In IPA it is /ˈɹæŋɡəl/.

What is another word for wrangle?

Close synonyms include quarrel, row, words, run-in, dustup. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wrangle a common word?

wrangle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.