wrangle

CEFRC2

/ˈɹæŋɡəl/

verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To argue angrily about something.

  2. 02

    verb

    To control or manage something difficult.

Examples

  • This contract dispute turned into a legal wrangle.

  • We are involved in a legal wrangle over payments.

At a glance

Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [ˈɹʷæŋɡəl] ~ [ˈɹʷæŋɡl̩]
  • [ˈɹʷeɪ̯ŋɡəl] ~ [ˈɹʷeɪ̯ŋɡl̩]

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

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

  2. To speak or write (something) in an argumentative or contentious manner.

  3. To convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending.

More examples

In context

  • Wrangle and bloodshed followed thence.

  • [W]e vvrangled out of the King ten quarters of Corne for a copper Kettel, the vvhich the Preſident preceiving him much to affect, valued it at a much greater rate; […]

  • [H]e has taken in, Sir, the vvhole ſubject,— […] begging, borrovving, and ſtealing, as he vvent along, all that had been vvrote or vvrangled thereupon in the ſchools and porticos of the learned; […]

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Origin

verb

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”). The noun is derived from the verb. Cognates * Danish vringle (“to twist, entangle”) * German rangeln (“to wrestle”)