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garble (verb)

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  • garble — ► VERB ▪ reproduce (a message or transmission) in a confused and distorted way. ► NOUN ▪ a garbled account or transmission. DERIVATIVES garbler noun. ORIGIN originally in the sense «sift out, cleanse»: from an Arabic word meaning «sift» …   English terms dictionary

  • garble — verb a) To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account. The editor garbled the story. b) To make false by mutilation or addition …   Wiktionary

  • garble — verb [often as adjective garbled] reproduce (a message or transmission) in a confused and distorted way. noun a garbled account or transmission. Derivatives garbler noun Origin ME (in the sense sift out, cleanse ): from Anglo Latin and Ital.… …   English new terms dictionary

  • garble — verb the message was garbled in transmission Syn: mix up, muddle, jumble, confuse, obscure, distort, scramble; misstate, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, mistranslate, misinterpret, misconstrue, twist …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • garble — [15] Garble used not to have its presentday negative connotations. It originally meant simply ‘cleanse, sift, cull’: ‘[At Alexandria] all sorts of spices be garbled after the bargain is made’, Richard Hakluyt, Voyages 1599. Gradually, though,… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • garble — [15] Garble used not to have its presentday negative connotations. It originally meant simply ‘cleanse, sift, cull’: ‘[At Alexandria] all sorts of spices be garbled after the bargain is made’, Richard Hakluyt, Voyages 1599. Gradually, though,… …   Word origins

  • garble — I. transitive verb (garbled; garbling) Etymology: Middle English garbelen, from Old Italian garbellare to sift, from Arabic gharbala, from Late Latin cribellare, from cribellum sieve; akin to Latin cernere to sift more at certain Date: 15th… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • garble — gar|ble [ garbl ] verb transitive to communicate something badly in speech or writing, so that it is confusing or not accurate: The military must improve its communications to avoid garbling vital transmissions …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • garble — /ˈgabəl / (say gahbuhl) verb (t) (garbled, garbling) 1. to make unfair or misleading selections from (facts, statements, writings, etc.); corrupt. 2. to make incomprehensible. –noun 3. the process of garbling. {Italian garbellare, from Arabic… …  

  • garbler — garble ► VERB ▪ reproduce (a message or transmission) in a confused and distorted way. ► NOUN ▪ a garbled account or transmission. DERIVATIVES garbler noun. ORIGIN originally in the sense «sift out, cleanse»: from an Arabic word meaning «sift» …   English terms dictionary

  • confuse — verb 1) don t confuse students with too much detail Syn: bewilder, baffle, mystify, bemuse, perplex, puzzle, confound; informal flummox, faze, stump, fox, discombobulate, bedazzle Ant: enlighten 2) …   Thesaurus of popular words

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