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# wrangling

«wrangling» in Mova's school dictionary: **Noisy and long argument between people, or the act of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural) or the -ing form of the verb wrangle

### meaning for a pupil

Noisy and long argument between people, or the act of arguing in this way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrangling/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, the loud quarrel that goes on between people, often rude or scolding

### examples

- The wrangling went on until night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrangling/#x1)
- Their wrangling woke the whole house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrangling/#x2)
- All that wrangling got them nowhere. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrangling/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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