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Noun wrangle has 2 senses

quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup - an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words"
--₁ is a kind of dispute, difference, difference of opinion, conflict
--₁ has particulars:
affray, altercation, fracas; bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss; bust-up

Derived form: verb wrangle₁
haggle, haggling, wrangle, wrangling - an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
--₂ is a kind of bargaining

Verb wrangle has 2 senses

brawl, wrangle - to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively; "The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street"
--₁ is one way to quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate

Derived forms: noun wrangle₁, noun wrangler₁, noun wrangling₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
wrangle - herd and care for; "wrangle horses"
--₂ is one way to herd

Derived form: noun wrangler₂
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something