wrangle
v.
persuade; argue; bicker
n.
dispute, bickering; obtainment (e.g. through persuasive argument); act of persuading someone to give something
Wrangle
wrangle
Noun
1. an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words"
(synonym) quarrel, row, words, run-in, dustup
(hypernym) dispute, difference, difference of opinion, conflict
(hyponym) affray, altercation, fracas
(derivation) brawl
2. an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
(synonym) haggle, haggling, wrangling
(hypernym) bargaining
Verb
1. to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively; "The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street"
(synonym) brawl
(hypernym) quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate
(derivation) quarrel, row, words, run-in, dustup
2. herd and care for; "wrangle horses"
(hypernym) herd
(derivation) horse wrangler, wrangler
Wrangle
(v. t.)
To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.
(v. i.)
To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate.
(v. i.)
To argue; to debate; to dispute.
(n.)
An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
wrangle
Synonyms and related words:
altercate, altercation, argue, argufy, argument, bandy words, bicker, bicker over, bickering, blood feud, brawl, broil, cage, caterwaul, cavil, choplogic, contend, contend about, contention, contest, controversy, corral, cross swords, cut and thrust, differ, discept, dispute, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, drive, drove, embroilment, fall out, feud, fight, fight over, flite, fliting, fracas, fuss, give and take, goad, hassle, have it out, have words, herd, imbroglio, join issue, lash, lock horns, logomachize, logomachy, moot, open quarrel, pettifog, plead, polemic, polemicize, polemize, prick, punch cattle, quarrel, quarrel over, quibble, ride herd on, round up, row, sharp words, shepherd, slanging match, snarl, spar, spat, spur, squabble, squabble over, strife, take issue with, take sides, thrash out, tiff, try conclusions, tussle, vendetta, whip, words, wrangle over
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.