garble

1 of 2

verb

gar·ble ˈgär-bəl How to pronounce garble (audio)

garbled; garbling ˈgär-b(ə-)liŋ How to pronounce garble (audio)

transitive verb

: to so alter or distort as to create a wrong impression or change the meaning

garble a story

: to introduce textual error into (a message) by inaccurate encipherment, transmission, or decipherment

: to sift impurities from

archaic : cull sense 1

garbler

ˈgär-b(ə-)lər How to pronounce garble (audio)

noun

garble

2 of 2

noun

: an act or an instance of garbling

: the impurities removed from spices in sifting

Example Sentences

Verb the candidate complained that his views had been deliberately garbled by his opponent garbled spices are less likely to contaminate a recipe

Recent Examples on the Web

Verb

In 2013, Sahai and five co-authors proposed an iO protocol that splits up a program into something like jigsaw puzzle pieces, then uses cryptographic objects called multilinear maps to garble the individual pieces.

Quanta Magazine, 10 Nov. 2020 At one point Justice Stephen Breyer's line was briefly garbled.

Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2020 The not-so-great aspect of the low-tech shows are video conference interviews that get glitchy, as voices get garbled or out of sync, and images freeze up.

oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2020 As a result, if something is wrong with a flight attendant's PA, it will be reported to maintenance, whereas the pilots may even not be aware theirs is garbled.

John Cox, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2020 The candidates' closing arguments to Arizona Democrats in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary were garbled by the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 17 Mar. 2020 But Dersh garbled the point — which also occasionally happens, even to those of us who are not 81 and lack the professor’s vigor.

Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review, 31 Jan. 2020 The recording was garbled at times, the newspaper reported, but a man told the authorities that a woman had fallen into a creek and couldn’t be pulled from the water.

Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 14 Oct. 2019 The league’s initial response to the Morey fiasco was garbled, vague, and contradictory.

Nathaniel Friedman, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2019

Noun

Maybe there was a garble (the difference between didn’t come up and wasn’t discussed inappropriately could easily be confused).

Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review, 2 May 2020 The audio reflects about 30 minutes of radio transmissions edited for brevity and elimination of gaps and garbles.

D. Kwas, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2019 At every turn, Guyatt either garbles or corrupts my arguments.

Nicholas Guyatt, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019 But the video — and subsequent performances, including a cringey SNL appearance — contains visual and lyrical content that is not a focused homage to Japan but rather a garble of exociticizing Asian signifiers.

Andrew Chow, refinery29.com, 22 May 2018 There are bouts of puppy love (and more intense crushes), plenty of witty garbles from Sunny, and some Broadway-worthy performances from Harris (the end of episode three might be the grandest of them all).

Michaela Bechler, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2018 Indeed, Messina had given birth to a tool that would infiltrate our vernacular, aggregate conversations and, yes, fill screens with unnecessary, meaningless garble.

Matt Stevens, The Seattle Times, 27 Aug. 2017 Indeed, Messina had given birth to a tool that would infiltrate our vernacular, aggregate conversations and, yes, fill screens with unnecessary, meaningless garble.

The New York Times, NOLA.com, 24 Aug. 2017 See More

Word History

Etymology

Verb

Middle English garbelen "to remove impurites or refuse from (spices)," borrowed from Anglo-French garbeler, probably borrowed—directly or from Italian *garbellare (attested in Medieval Latin of Verona as garbellāre in 1319)—from Arabic gharbala "to sift, screen," derivative of ghirbāl "sieve," borrowed from Late Latin crībellum, diminutive of Latin crībrum "sieve" — more at riddle entry 3

Note: Presumably a word passed from Arabic to Mediterranean Europe through trade in Eastern spices. The earliest evidence of the Romance/Latin etymon is in a statute of the city of Marseille (recording both garbellare and garbellum "sieve, riddle") from 1269 (though there is apparently no corresponding word in Old Occitan). The French form garbalé (past participle of the verb) is attested in a document from Bruges in Flanders dated to 1304. Joan Coromines (Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico) believes the word was first adopted from Arabic in Catalonia, partly on the basis of the half-Catalan phrase grana assaonada "ripened grains [?]" used in the above-mentioned Marseille statute.

Noun

derivative of garble entry 1; in sense 2 perhaps in part borrowed from Italian garbello, noun derivative of garbellare

First Known Use

Verb

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3

Noun

1503, in the meaning defined at sense 2

单词	garbles
释义	garble 1 of 2 verb gar·ble ˈgär-bəl garbled; garbling ˈgär-b(ə-)liŋ transitive verb 1 a : to so alter or distort as to create a wrong impression or change the meaning garble a story b : to introduce textual error into (a message) by inaccurate encipherment, transmission, or decipherment 2 : to sift impurities from 3 archaic : cull sense 1 garbler ˈgär-b(ə-)lər noun garble 2 of 2 noun 1 : an act or an instance of garbling 2 : the impurities removed from spices in sifting Did you know? Garble comes from Anglo-French garbeler, meaning "to remove impurities or refuse from (spices)." The English word refers to distortion of speech or writing that makes its meaning unclear (impure). Synonyms Verb bend color cook distort falsify fudge misinterpret misrelate misrepresent misstate pervert slant twist warp See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences Verb the candidate complained that his views had been deliberately garbled by his opponent garbled spices are less likely to contaminate a recipe Recent Examples on the Web Verb In 2013, Sahai and five co-authors proposed an iO protocol that splits up a program into something like jigsaw puzzle pieces, then uses cryptographic objects called multilinear maps to garble the individual pieces. Quanta Magazine, 10 Nov. 2020 At one point Justice Stephen Breyer's line was briefly garbled. Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2020 The not-so-great aspect of the low-tech shows are video conference interviews that get glitchy, as voices get garbled or out of sync, and images freeze up. oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2020 As a result, if something is wrong with a flight attendant's PA, it will be reported to maintenance, whereas the pilots may even not be aware theirs is garbled. John Cox, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2020 The candidates' closing arguments to Arizona Democrats in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary were garbled by the novel coronavirus outbreak. Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 17 Mar. 2020 But Dersh garbled the point — which also occasionally happens, even to those of us who are not 81 and lack the professor’s vigor. Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review, 31 Jan. 2020 The recording was garbled at times, the newspaper reported, but a man told the authorities that a woman had fallen into a creek and couldn’t be pulled from the water. Ashley Remkus \| Aremkus@al.com, al, 14 Oct. 2019 The league’s initial response to the Morey fiasco was garbled, vague, and contradictory. Nathaniel Friedman, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2019 Noun Maybe there was a garble (the difference between didn’t come up and wasn’t discussed inappropriately could easily be confused). Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review, 2 May 2020 The audio reflects about 30 minutes of radio transmissions edited for brevity and elimination of gaps and garbles. D. Kwas, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2019 At every turn, Guyatt either garbles or corrupts my arguments. Nicholas Guyatt, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019 But the video — and subsequent performances, including a cringey SNL appearance — contains visual and lyrical content that is not a focused homage to Japan but rather a garble of exociticizing Asian signifiers. Andrew Chow, refinery29.com, 22 May 2018 There are bouts of puppy love (and more intense crushes), plenty of witty garbles from Sunny, and some Broadway-worthy performances from Harris (the end of episode three might be the grandest of them all). Michaela Bechler, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2018 Indeed, Messina had given birth to a tool that would infiltrate our vernacular, aggregate conversations and, yes, fill screens with unnecessary, meaningless garble. Matt Stevens, The Seattle Times, 27 Aug. 2017 Indeed, Messina had given birth to a tool that would infiltrate our vernacular, aggregate conversations and, yes, fill screens with unnecessary, meaningless garble. Matt Stevens, The Seattle Times, 27 Aug. 2017 Indeed, Messina had given birth to a tool that would infiltrate our vernacular, aggregate conversations and, yes, fill screens with unnecessary, meaningless garble. The New York Times, NOLA.com, 24 Aug. 2017 See More Word History Etymology Verb Middle English garbelen "to remove impurites or refuse from (spices)," borrowed from Anglo-French garbeler, probably borrowed—directly or from Italian garbellare (attested in Medieval Latin of Verona as garbellāre* in 1319)—from Arabic gharbala "to sift, screen," derivative of ghirbāl "sieve," borrowed from Late Latin crībellum, diminutive of Latin crībrum "sieve" — more at riddle entry 3 Note: Presumably a word passed from Arabic to Mediterranean Europe through trade in Eastern spices. The earliest evidence of the Romance/Latin etymon is in a statute of the city of Marseille (recording both garbellare and garbellum "sieve, riddle") from 1269 (though there is apparently no corresponding word in Old Occitan). The French form garbalé (past participle of the verb) is attested in a document from Bruges in Flanders dated to 1304. Joan Coromines (Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico) believes the word was first adopted from Arabic in Catalonia, partly on the basis of the half-Catalan phrase grana assaonada "ripened grains [?]" used in the above-mentioned Marseille statute. Noun derivative of garble entry 1; in sense 2 perhaps in part borrowed from Italian garbello, noun derivative of garbellare First Known Use Verb 15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3 Noun 1503, in the meaning defined at sense 2 Kids Definition garble verb gar·ble ˈgär-bəl garbled; garbling : to change or twist the meaning or sound of He garbled the message. garbles verb present tense third-person singular of garble 1 as in distorts to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of the candidate complained that his views had been deliberately garbled by his opponent Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance distorts misrepresents misinterprets obscures misstates falsifies complicates fudges confuses warps mistranslates slants censors perverts cooks twists colors misrelates dissembles misspeaks camouflages mistakes bends disguises masks whitewashes equivocates prevaricates veils misdescribes belies mystifies lies confounds fibs palters bowdlerizes glosses (over) mixes (up) Antonyms & Near Antonyms interprets explains illustrates clarifies illuminates clears (up) deciphers spells out See More 2 as in filters to remove usually visible impurities from garbled spices are less likely to contaminate a recipe Synonyms & Similar Words filters extracts clarifies refines cleans distills processes clears washes fines purifies distils purges sifts rectifies cleanses sanitizes leaches screens decontaminates sieves disinfects elutriates bolts Antonyms & Near Antonyms dulls clouds muddies contaminates pollutes taints soils dirties defiles sullies besmirches fouls begrimes See More
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