garbled
Meaning of garbled
- (of a message, sound, or transmission) confused and distorted; unclear.
I got a garbled set of directions
- reproduce (a message, sound, or transmission) in a confused and distorted way.
the connection was awful and kept garbling his voice
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’.
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Hyphenation of garbled
gar-bled
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- garbled is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
garbled synonyms
Meaning confused:
confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, illogical, scattered, unconnected
Meaning bring into a disordered or confusing state:
Meaning mix up in a confused or untidy way:
Meaning make (something) more complex or less easy to understand:
Meaning make or become unclear or less distinct:
Meaning speak (words) indistinctly so that the sounds run into one another:
Meaning keep from being seen; conceal:
Meaning give a misleading or false account or impression of:
Meaning distort or misrepresent the meaning of (words):
Meaning make or become bent or twisted out of shape, typically as a result of the effects of heat or damp:
Meaning make wrong or inaccurate statements about:
Meaning quote (a person or a piece of written or spoken text) inaccurately:
Meaning give a false or inaccurate account of (something):
Meaning give a false or misleading account of the nature of:
Meaning translate (something) incorrectly:
Meaning interpret (something or someone) wrongly:
Meaning interpret (a person's words or actions) wrongly:
Meaning make (someone or something) different; alter or modify:
Meaning change in character or composition, typically in a comparatively small but significant way:
Meaning change the content or appearance of (a document or picture) in order to deceive; falsify:
Meaning alter (information, a document, or evidence) so as to mislead:
Meaning distort or corrupt the original course, meaning, or state of (something):
Meaning cause to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain:
Meaning render (something) poorer in quality by adding another substance:
Meaning wrongly represent or interpret:
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Words that rhyme with garbled
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