Rangled vs Wrangled - What's the difference?
rangled | wrangled |
(rangle)
(obsolete, dialect, UK) To range about in an irregular manner.
(wrangle)
To bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
to herd horses or other livestock
To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.
* Bishop Robert Sanderson
As verbs the difference between rangled and wrangled
is that rangled is past tense of rangle while wrangled is past tense of wrangle.rangled
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(head)rangle
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(rangl)- (Halliwell)
wrangled
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(head)wrangle
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(wrangl)- For a score of kingdoms you should wrangle .
- He did not know what it was to wrangle on indifferent points.
- 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 that walketh in the safest way, and by the surest line.
- I don't know how, but she managed to wrangle us four front row seats at tonight's game.