garbled

gar·ble  (gärbl)

tr.v. gar·bled, gar·bling, gar·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.

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[Middle English garbelen, to inspect and remove refuse from spices, from Anglo-Norman garbeler, to sift, and from Medieval Latin garbellre, both from Arabic arbala, to select, from irbl, sieve, from Late Latin crbellum, diminutive of Latin crbrum; see krei- in Indo-European roots.]

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garbler (-blr) n.

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garbled

Adjective

(of a story, message, etc.) jumbled and confused [Old Italian garbellare to strain, sift]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

garbled - lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts" disjointed, disordered, illogical, scattered, confused, unconnected, disconnected incoherent - without logical or meaningful connection; "a turgid incoherent presentation"

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garbled

adjective jumbled, confused, distorted, mixed up, muddled, incomprehensible, unintelligible

Translations

garbled [ˈgɑːbld] adj [account, explanation] → confuso

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garbled [ˈgɑːbld] adj → déformé(e) → faussé(e)

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garbled [ˈgɑːbld] adj (account) → wirr;

(message) → unverständlich

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garbled [ˈgɑːbld] adj → deformato/a; ingarbugliato/a

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garbled

adj garbled [ˈgaːbld]

(of a story etc) mixed up The child gave a garbled account of the accident. verdraaide يُشَوِّه неточно представен překroucený, zkreslený, zkomolený forkludret; fordrejet entstellen διαστρεβλωμένος, μπερδεμένος confuso, incoherente segane تحریف شده sekava embrouillé, confus מְבוּלבַּל, לא בּרוּר सूचना का अस्त-व्यस्त और भटकाने वाला zbrkan elferdített campur aduk afbakaður, umsnúinn confuso 混同した 혼란된 supainiotas, iškraipytas sagrozīt; izkropļot (faktus u.tml.) tidak tentu biji butirnya verward forvansket, rotet, dårlig gjengitt chaotyczny confuso trunchiat, confuz в искажённом виде skomolený popačen konfuzan vilseledande, förvirrad สับสน; ปนเป karışık 混淆的 перекручений توڑا مروڑا ہوا lẫn lộn 混淆的