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garbling Definition


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garble
verb garbled, garbling
    1. To mix up the details of something unintentionally.
      Thesaurus: jumble, confuse, mix up.
    2. To deliberately distort the meaning of something, eg by making important omissions.
      Thesaurus: pervert, distort, corrupt, mangle, mistranslate, misrepresent, tamper with, falsify, doctor; Antonym: decipher.
Derivative: garbled
adj
    Said of a report or account: muddled.
Etymology: 15c: from Arabic ghirbal a sieve.



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