wra
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Third Person
wrangles
Present Participle
wrangling
Past Tense
wrangled
Past Participle
wrangled
1
to have a noisy and intense argument
- The siblings would often wrangle over who would get to choose the television channel.
- Negotiators wrangled for months to broker a deal between the opposing sides.
- The soccer players started to wrangle with the referees, disputing the decisions and causing a chaotic scene on the field.
- The siblings continued to wrangle about the distribution of household chores, creating a commotion in the house.
Synonyms:
2
to herd or manage horses or other livestock
transitive
- The cowboy wrangled the cattle across the open prairie.
- She learned how to wrangle goats on her family's farm.
- The rancher spent the morning wrangling the horses for the rodeo.
- He enjoyed spending his weekends wrangling buffalo in the wilderness.
- The park ranger wrangled the unruly ponies back to their designated grazing area.