garble

Meaning of garble

verb
  1. reproduce (a message, sound, or transmission) in a confused and distorted way.
    the connection was awful and kept garbling his voice
noun
  1. a garbled account or transmission.
    most readers assumed the word was a typographical garble
    upon winning a race a driver spews out a litany of commercial garble

late Middle English (in the sense ‘sift out, cleanse’): from Anglo-Latin and Italian garbellare, from Arabic ġarbala ‘sift’, perhaps from late Latin cribellare ‘to sieve’, from Latin cribrum ‘sieve’.

Information about garble

  • The plural form of garble is: garbles.
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Hyphenation of garble

gar-ble

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • garble is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

garble synonyms

Meaning falsify:

falsify, distort, warp

Meaning bring into a disordered or confusing state:

muddle

Meaning mix up in a confused or untidy way:

jumble

Meaning make (something) more complex or less easy to understand:

confuse

Meaning make or become unclear or less distinct:

blur

Meaning speak (words) indistinctly so that the sounds run into one another:

slur

Meaning keep from being seen; conceal:

obscure

Meaning distort or misrepresent the meaning of (words):

twist

Meaning make wrong or inaccurate statements about:

misstate

Meaning quote (a person or a piece of written or spoken text) inaccurately:

misquote

Meaning give a false or inaccurate account of (something):

misreport

Meaning give a false or misleading account of the nature of:

misrepresent

Meaning translate (something) incorrectly:

mistranslate

Meaning interpret (something or someone) wrongly:

misinterpret

Meaning interpret (a person's words or actions) wrongly:

misconstrue

Meaning make (someone or something) different; alter or modify:

change

Meaning change in character or composition, typically in a comparatively small but significant way:

alter

Meaning change the content or appearance of (a document or picture) in order to deceive; falsify:

doctor

Meaning distort or corrupt the original course, meaning, or state of (something):

pervert

Meaning cause to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain:

corrupt

Meaning render (something) poorer in quality by adding another substance:

adulterate

Meaning wrongly represent or interpret:

misrender

Anagrams of garble

Gabler, gabler, garbel, Glaber, Grable, legbar

Words that rhyme with garble

Marble, barble, dismarble, emmarble, engarble, enmarble, immarble, jarble, marble, multimarble, outwarble, tarble, warble, jirble, wirble, gorble, worble, burble, fourble, sturble, turble

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