| 单词 | garble |
| 释义 | garble[ gahr-buhl ] / ˈgɑr bəl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR garble ON THESAURUS.COM verb (used with object), gar·bled, gar·bling.to confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble: to garble instructions. to make unfair or misleading selections from or arrangement of (fact, statements, writings, etc.); distort: to garble a quotation. Archaic. to take out the best of. nounthe act or process of garbling. an instance of garbling; a garbled phrase, literary passage, etc. Origin of garble1400–50; late Middle English garbelen to remove refuse from spices <Old Italian garbellare to sift <Arabic gharbala<Late Latin crībellāre, derivative of crībellum, diminutive of Latin crībrum sieve (see -elle); probably influenced by garboil OTHER WORDS FROM garblegar·ble·a·ble, adjectivegarbler, nounun·gar·bled, adjectiveWords nearby garblegarbage collection, garbage in, garbage out, garbageman, garbage truck, garbanzo, garble, garbled, Garbo, garboard, garboard strake, Garbo, Greta Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for garbleBritish Dictionary definitions for garblegarble / (ˈɡɑːbəl) / verb (tr)to jumble (a story, quotation, etc), esp unintentionally to distort the meaning of (an account, text, etc), as by making misleading omissions; corrupt rare to select the best part of noun
Derived forms of garblegarbler, nounWord Origin for garbleC15: from Old Italian garbellare to strain, sift, from Arabic gharbala, from ghirbāl sieve, from Late Latin crībellum small sieve, from crībrum sieve Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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