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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
garbled
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The newspapers had some garbled version of the story.
▪ The voice on the tape was too garbled to understand.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ During the Renaissance, for example, it surfaced repeatedly albeit in somewhat garbled form.
▪ It was the peculiar accent that puzzled me before; it made Alice's words sound garbled, nonsensical.
▪ Rachel was not an easy person to go to with such a strange and garbled fear.
▪ The account appears in garbled form in the New Testament.
▪ There were a few more garbled words, part of an argument, then a loud noise and a scream.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Garbled

Garble \Gar"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Garbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Garbling.] [Formerly, to pick out, sort, OF. grabeler, for garbeler to examine precisely, garble spices, fr. LL. garbellare to sift; cf. Sp. garbillar to sift, garbillo a coarse sieve, L. cribellum, dim. of cribrum sieve, akin to cernere to separate, sift (cf. E. Discern); or perh. rather from Ar. gharb[=a]l, gharbil, sieve.]

  1. To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices. [Obs.]

  2. To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
garbled

by 1620s of spices; by 1774 of language; past-participle adjective from garble (v.).

Wiktionary
garbled

  1. (''of a message'' etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled v

  2. (en-past of: garble)

WordNet
garbled

adj. lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts" [syn: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, illogical, scattered, unconnected]