单词 | garble |
释义 | garble —garbleable, adj. —garbler, n. /gahr"beuhl/, v. , garbled, garbling, n. v.t. 1. to confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble: to garble instructions. 2. to make unfair or misleading selections from or arrangement of (fact, statements, writings, etc.); distort: to garble a quotation. 3. Archaic. to take out the best of. n. 4. the act or process of garbling. 5. an instance of garbling; a garbled phrase, literary passage, etc. [1400-50; late ME garbelen to remove refuse from spices < OIt garbellare to sift < Ar gharbala < LL cribellare, deriv. of cribellum, dim. of L cribrum sieve (see -ELLE); prob. influenced by GARBOIL] |
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