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Word Meanings - WRANGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To argue; to debate; to dispute. 2. To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate. "In spite of occasional wranglings." Macaulay. For a score of kingdoms you should wrangle. Shak. He did not know what it

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Etym: 1. To argue; to debate; to dispute. 2. To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate. "In spite of occasional wranglings." Macaulay. For a score of kingdoms you should wrangle. Shak. He did not know what it was to wrangle on indifferent points. Addison.

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  • MAINTAIN
    by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
  • SCOLDER
    1. One who scolds. The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries. The old squaw.
  • DISAGREEABLENESS
    The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
  • QUARRELING
    Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. -- Quar"rel*ing*ly, adv.
  • SHOUTER
    One who shouts.
  • UPROARIOUS
    Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n.
  • SCOLDINGLY
    In a scolding manner.
  • ARGUE
    1. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton. 2. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as,
  • CONTESTABLE
    Capable of being contested; debatable.
  • STRUGGLER
    One who struggles.
  • DISAGREER
    One who disagrees. Hammond.
  • CONTENTIOUS
    Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction , jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed
  • MAINTAINOR
    One who, not being interested, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party. Bouvier. Wharton.
  • CONTESTATION
    1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. 2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. A solemn
  • UPROAR
    Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor. But the Jews which believed not, . . . set all the city on an uproar. Acts xvii. 5. (more info) uppror; D. op up + roeren to stir; akin to AS. hr to stir, hr stirring,
  • DISPUTE
    To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle. (more info) from L. disputare, disputatum; dis- + putare to clean; hence, fig.,
  • STRIVE
    1. To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard. Was for this his ambition strove To equal Cæsar first, and after, Jove Cowley. 2. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest;
  • BRAWLING
    1. Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak. 2. Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3. A brawling stream. J. S. Shairp.
  • SPEAKERSHIP
    The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
  • DISTURBANCE
    The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil;
  • DISEMBROIL
    To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.
  • REDARGUE
    To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has,
  • ENGRAPPLE
    To grapple.
  • BESPEAKER
    One who bespeaks.
  • INGRAPPLE
    To seize; to clutch; to grapple. Drayton.
  • OUTSPEAK
    1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.
  • UNBESPEAK
    To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.
  • INCONTESTED
    Not contested. Addison.

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