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# wrangle

verb (wrangles, wrangled, wrangling)

«wrangle» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

To argue noisily and for a long time, often about something small, and not agree. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrangle/#m1)

### In the lessons

in stories, two people or animals quarrelling without end and not settling the matter

### Examples

- The two boys wrangled over the last cake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrangle/#x1)
- They wrangled all afternoon about who owned the boat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrangle/#x2)
- Do not wrangle; take turns instead. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrangle/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «wrangle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrangle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«wrangle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/wrangle.html) on Mova free.