garble

tr.v., -bled, -bling, -bles.

1. To mix up or distort to such an extent as to make misleading or incomprehensible: She garbled all the historical facts.
2. To scramble (a signal or message), as by erroneous encoding or faulty transmission.
3. Archaic. To sort out; cull.

n.

The act or an instance of garbling.

[Middle English garbelen, to inspect and remove refuse from spices, from Anglo-Norman garbeler, to sift, and from Medieval Latin garbellāre, both from Arabic ġarbala, to select, from ġirbāl, sieve, from Late Latin crībellum, diminutive of Latin crībrum.]

garbler gar'bler (-blər) n.

v

Definition: mix up, misrepresent
Antonyms: decipher, order, pronounce, represent, translate, unscramble

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n.an error in transmission, reception, encryption, or decryption that changes the text of a message or any portion thereof in such a manner that it is incorrect or undecryptable.

See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.

(DOD) An error in transmission, reception, encryption, or decryption that changes the text of a message or any portion thereof in such a manner that it is incorrect or undecryptable.

IN BRIEF: v. - Make false by mutilation or addition.

Tutor's tip: I might "garble" (speak or write in a confused manner) my ideas while I write about my escaped pet "gerbil" (small rodent kept as a pet).

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - fordreje, forvanske, frasortere
n. - fordrejning, forvanskning, frasortering

Nederlands (Dutch)
onopzettelijk door elkaar halen, verdraaien, selectief zijn (negatief), uitzeven, uitgezeefd afval

Français (French)
v. tr. - déformer, raconter (qch) de façon confuse, donner (qch) de façon confuse (des instructions), transmettre (qch) de façon confuse
n. - confusion

Deutsch (German)
v. - verdrehen, verstümmeln, durcheinanderbringen
n. - Verstümmelung

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - διαστρέφω, διαστρεβλώνω, αλλοιώνω, παραποιώ
n. - ανακάτεμα

Italiano (Italian)
ingarbugliare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - deturpar (fatos)
n. - deturpação (f)

Русский (Russian)
отбирать, искажать, отбор, искажение

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - falsificar, amañar, desvirtuar, truncar, mutilar
n. - acción de desvirtuar o mutilar, frase o pasaje literario truncado o mutilado

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - förvanska
n. - förvanskning

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
断章取义, 混淆, 篡改

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 斷章取義, 混淆
n. - 斷章取義, 篡改

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 마음대로 고치다, 잘못 전하다
n. - 왜곡, 불순물

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 曲げて伝える

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يغربل, يشوش (الاسم) تحريف, خطأ‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮סילף, תיאר בראי עקום, סירס‬
n. - ‮שיבוש, סילוף‬

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