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- pronunciation:
- gar
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- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, noun
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transitive verb |
| inflections: |
garbles, garbling, garbled |
| definition: |
to mix up, distort, or confuse (a message, translation, or the like); cause to be disordered or unintelligible.
We received the message, but it was so garbled that we couldn't understand it.- similar words:
- jumble, mangle, scramble
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| related words: |
distort, miss, obfuscate, pervert, scramble, twist, wrench |
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
something that has been garbled.
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| definition 2: |
the action or process of garbling.
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| derivation: |
garbler (n.) |
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