garbled
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English
Definitions
verb
- To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert“to garble a quotation”
- To make false by mutilation or addition“The editor garbled the story.”
- To 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”
adjective
- (of a message etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled
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Synonyms
confuseddisordereddisjointedincoherentillogicaldisconnectedscatteredunconnectedconfusingdisorientedmuddledjumpyfoggyfuzzyscramblygarbly