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# wrangle

«wrangle» in Mova's school dictionary: **To argue noisily and for a long time, often about…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (wrangles, wrangled, wrangling)

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wrangle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrangle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.