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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, περιπλεγμένος

From 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/
  مغربل

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  garbled /ɡˈɑːbəld/ 
  zkomolený

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  garbled /ɡˈɑːbəld/ 
  zpřeházený

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  garbled /ɡˈɑːbəld/
  verstümmelt, entstellt
   see: garble sth., garbling, garbles, garbled, garble the facts, garbled message
  

From 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 message
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  garbled /ɡˈɑːbəld/ 
  konfus 

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  garbled /ɡˈɑːbəld/ 
  1. सूचना~काअस्तव्यस्त~और~भटकाने~वाला
        "The NATO spokesperson gave a garbled account of the U.S.attack on Yugoslavia ."

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  garbled /ˈgɑ:bəld/ 
    zniekształcony, kulawy

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈɡɑɹbəɫd/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  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, warped
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  adj.篡改的;曲解的

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