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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
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.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
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.From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
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]From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
garbled Αγγλικά a. μπερδεμένος, περιπλεγμένοςFrom English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
garbled a. (''of a message'' etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled vb. (infl of en garble ed-form)From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
garbled a. (''of a message'' etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled vb. (infl of en garble ed-form)From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
garbled a. (''of a message'' etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled vb. (infl of en garble ed-form)From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
garbled a. (''of a message'' etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled vb. (infl of en garble ed-form)From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
garbled Englanti a. sekava, sotkuinen, vääristynyt Englanti vb. (en-v-taivm g arble d)From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
garbled Engelska a. (avledning en garble ordform=perfpart) Engelska vb. (böjning en verb garble)From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Garbled /ɡˈɑːbəld/ مغربلFrom English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
garbled /ɡˈɑːbəld/From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]zkomolený
garbled /ɡˈɑːbəld/From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]zpřeházený
garbled /ɡˈɑːbəld/ verstümmelt, entstellt see: garble sth., garbling, garbles, garbled, garble the facts, garbled messageFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
garbled /ɡˈɑːbəld/ verstümmelte, entstellte see: garble sth., garbling, garbled, garbles, garble the facts, garbled messageFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
garbled /ɡˈɑːbəld/From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]konfus
garbled /ɡˈɑːbəld/From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-pol ]1. सूचना~काअस्तव्यस्त~और~भटकाने~वाला "The NATO spokesperson gave a garbled account of the U.S.attack on Yugoslavia ."
garbled /ˈgɑ:bəld/From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]zniekształcony, kulawy
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]/ˈɡɑɹbəɫd/
123 Moby Thesaurus words for "garbled": affected, aimless, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, beyond one, biased, bogus, brummagem, butchered, castrated, catachrestic, colorable, colored, complex, complicated, cooked, counterfeit, counterfeited, crabbed, cramp, cut short, designless, difficult, distorted, docked, doctored, dressed up, dummy, eisegetical, embellished, embroidered, empty, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, hard, hard to understand, hashed, illegitimate, imitation, importless, inane, inauthentic, insignificant, intricate, jumbled, junky, knotty, lopped, make-believe, man-made, mangled, meaningless, misapprehended, miscited, misconceived, misconstrued, misinterpreted, misquoted, misread, misreported, misrepresented, misstated, mistaken, misunderstood, mock, mutilated, nonconnotative, nondenotative, null, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, overtechnical, perplexed, perverted, phatic, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, purportless, purposeless, put-on, quasi, queer, scrambled, self-styled, senseless, sham, shoddy, simulated, slanted, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, strained, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, tortured, tough, truncated, twisted, unauthentic, unauthoritative, unfounded, ungenuine, unmeaning, unnatural, unreal, unreliable, unsignificant, warpedFrom Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
adj.篡改的;曲解的