wrangle
To argue a lot, often in an angry way.
To argue, often angrily and at length, especially about something that seems unimportant.
A long argument.
A noisy or prolonged argument or dispute.
To control or organize something difficult.
To manage, control, or organize something difficult or messy, especially by using a lot of practical effort.
To control animals like cattle or horses.
To herd, control, or handle livestock, especially cattle or horses.
- Base: wrangle
- 3rd Person Singular: wrangles
- Present Participle: wrangling
- Past: wrangled
data wrangling
1cleaning and reshaping data
Preparing messy data so it is usable.
- Most of the project was data wrangling, not modeling.
- We need better tools for data wrangling before the next release.
- She specializes in data wrangling for large datasets.
wrangle [someone] into [doing something/being somewhere]
1persuade or force into action
To make someone do something they don’t want to do.
- We finally wrangled him into coming to the party.
- She wrangled the kids into bed before 9 p.m.
- They wrangled the team into agreeing on a deadline.
- I wrangled my brother into helping me.
wrangle [yourself/someone] out of [something]
1get out of a commitment
To escape something you promised to do.
- He tried to wrangle himself out of the weekend shift.
- I wrangled out of the meeting by offering to send a written update.
- They wrangled her out of trouble with a last-minute compromise.
- She wrangled herself out of the meeting.
wrangle up [someone/something]
1round up or gather people/things
To collect people or things, usually with effort.
- Can you wrangle up a few chairs from the other room?
- We wrangled up enough volunteers to run the event.
- I’ll wrangle up everyone and we’ll start in five minutes.
- He wrangled up some help.
wrangle with [something]
1struggle to deal with something
To try hard to solve or manage something difficult.
- I’ve been wrangling with this software bug all afternoon.
- She wrangled with the paperwork until it finally made sense.
- He’s still wrangling with the decision about where to live.
- I am wrangling with a problem.