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wrangles

wrangles is the plural of wrangle.

wrangles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wrangle.

Meaning of wrangle

Noun

wrangle (countable and uncountable, plural wrangles)

  1. (countable) An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; an altercation.
    • For in that you would your awardship shuld take none effect, you shew your selfe nothing inclinable to the redresse of your brothers vnright dealinge wyth an honeste poore man, which hath bene redye at your request to doo you pleasure with his things, or els he had neuer come into this wrāgle for...1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “A Frutefull Letter of Maister Latimer Written to a Certaine Gentilman”, in John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […]...
  2. (uncountable) Angry disputation; noisy quarrelling.
    • Wrangle and bloodshed followed thence.
  3. (obsolete) A contentious argument or response.
  4. (obsolete) A controversy.

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Phrases with wrangles

Questions about wrangles

What is wrangles the plural of?
Wrangles is the plural of wrangle.

Words near wrangles in the dictionary

  1. wrangledst
  2. wrangler
  3. wranglers
  4. wranglership
  5. wranglerships
  6. wrangles
  7. wranglesome
  8. wranglest
  9. wrangleth
  10. wranglin'
  11. wrangling

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