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Definition of wrangling : of Wrangle

Synonyms:

haggle, run-in, haggling, wrangle, row, words, quarrel, dustup

luring, palming, accumulating, pocketing, incurring, securing, cornering, claiming, amassing, garnering, netting, fetching, harvesting, heaping, retrieving, reaping, getting, buying, winning, taking, collecting, acquiring, scoring, adding, assuming, annexing, receiving, landing, purchasing, catching, capturing, obtaining, bagging, procuring

contrasting, quarreling, hassling, disputing, antagonizing, opposing, encountering, defending, conflicting, clashing, vying, standing, protesting, wrestling, bickering, confronting, dissenting, contending, resisting, withstanding, struggling, brawling, arguing, facing

farming, housebreaking, breaking, training, herding, domesticating, breeding, taming, grooming, ranching

gameskeeping, cattle herding, shepherding, goatherding, hostling, stock breeding, dairy farming, domestication, swineherding

Usage examples:

• My words seem to soothe my friend, and he grows more cheerful, when unexpectedly he learns the truth from the wrangling nurses. - "Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist", Alexander Berkman.
• Even Count Zollern, after six months of wrangling in Brussels, took his departure. - "The Life of John of Barneveld, 1609-15, Volume I.", John Lothrop Motley Last Updated: February 7, 2009.
• After some wrangling and delay, the presidente sent a foot- messenger to San Antonio with orders to the authorities of that village to supply three animals for the travellers. - "In Indian Mexico (1908)", Frederick Starr.