Meaning

To convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending..

Definitions by Sense

1. To convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending.
2. Followed by out of: to elicit (something) from a person by arguing or bargaining.
3. To speak or write (something) in an argumentative or contentious manner.
4. To spend (time) arguing or quarrelling.
5. To herd (horses or other livestock).
6. Followed by out of: to compel or drive (someone or something) away through arguing.
7. Followed by out: to put forward arguments on (a case, a matter disagreed upon, etc.).
8. To cause (oneself) grief through arguing or quarrelling.

Example Sentences

[W]e vvrangled out of the King ten quarters of Corne for a copper Kettel, the vvhich the Preſident preceiving him much to affect, valued it at a much greater rate; […]

[H]e has taken in, Sir, the vvhole ſubject,— […] begging, borrovving, and ſtealing, as he vvent along, all that had been vvrote or vvrangled thereupon in the ſchools and porticos of the learned; […]

When she [Debbie Reynolds as Lucretia Rogers] tries to wrangle a calf, she ends up flat on her face in the barnyard muck.

To VVrangle the Devil, out of the Country, vvill be truly a Nevv Experiment! Alas, vve are not Avvare of the Devil, if vve do not think, that he aims at Enflaming us one againſt another; & ſhall vve ſuffer our ſelves to be Devil-Ridden? or, by any Vnadviſableneſs, contribute unto the VVidening of our Breaches?

VVell then, if I make 'hem not vvrangle out this caſe, to his no comfort, let me be thought a Iack Davv, or La-Foole, or any thing vvorſe.

When we have wrangled ourselves as long as our wits and strengths will serve us, the honest, downright sober English Protestant will be found, in the end, the man in the safest way, and by the surest line: […]

[A]fter his old manner, he wrangleth and quarrelleth.

Mens natures vvrangle with inferior things, / Tho great ones are the obiect, […]

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