Garble

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To mix up or distort to such an extent as to make misleading or incomprehensible: She garbled all the historical facts.
  • v. To scramble (a signal or message), as by erroneous encoding or faulty transmission.
  • v. Archaic To sort out; cull.
  • n. The act or an instance of garbling.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices.
  • v. To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.
  • v. To make false by mutilation or addition
  • n. refuse; rubbish
  • n. Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt.
  • v. To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert
  • n. Refuse; rubbish.
  • n. Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; -- also called garblings.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To sift or bolt; free from dross or dirt.
  • Henceā€” To pick out the fine or valuable parts of; cull out and select the best or most suitable parts or specimens of; sort out; select and assort, rejecting the bad or least suitable: as, to garble spices; to garble coins. See garbling the coinage, below. [Now only in technical use.]
  • To sort out parts of for a purpose, especially a sinister purpose; mutilate so as to give a false impression; sophisticate; corrupt: as, a garbled account of an affair; a garbled text or writing.
  • Synonyms Misquote, etc. (see mutilate); pervert, misrepresent, falsify.
  • n. Anything that has been sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been removed.
  • n. Refuse separated from goods, as spices, drugs, etc.: in the following passage applied to a low fellow. Compare trash in a similar use.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
  • Verb Form
    garbled    garbles    garbling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    misrepresent    belie   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    garblings   
    Hyponym
    murder    mutilate    mangle   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    mutilate    pervert    refuse    rubbish    deface   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    marble   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts