verb🔗ShareTo pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert"to garble a quotation"communicationlanguagemediawritingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo make false by mutilation or addition"The editor garbled the story."languagecommunicationmediaChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt"to garble spices"processlanguagecommunicationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗Share(of a message etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled"The radio transmission was garbled, making it impossible to hear the instructions for the emergency drill. "communicationsoundlanguagetechnologysignalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading