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Synonyms for garbled

Grammar : Verb
Spell : gahr-buh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈgɑr bəl

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Définition of garbled

Origin :
  • early 15c., "to inspect and remove refuse from (spices)," from Anglo-French garbeler "to sift" (late 14c.), from Medieval Latin and Italian garbellare, from Arabic gharbala "to sift and select spices," related to kirbal "sieve," perhaps from Late Latin cribellum, diminutive of Latin cribrum "sieve" (see crisis). Apparently a widespread word among Mediterranean traders (cf. Italian garbellare, Spanish garbillo); sense of "mix up, confuse, distort language" (by selecting some things and omitting others) first recorded 1680s. Related: Garbled; garbling.
  • verb mix up, misrepresent
Example sentences :
  • Charlie lent an ear to the garbled veblenisms and gave it up.
  • Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht
  • He garbled his sentences so to speak with excessive and useless wording.
  • Extract from : « Adventures in the Arts » by Marsden Hartley
  • Boccaccio has garbled the passage for the sake of his point.
  • Extract from : « The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio » by Giovanni Boccaccio
  • It was garbled truth, but there was enough to make his spine feel like ice.
  • Extract from : « Talents, Incorporated » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • Frank, your mother must know, and if she waits she will get a garbled account.
  • Extract from : « In Honour's Cause » by George Manville Fenn
  • A garbled history of the Gerhardts was obtained from Columbus.
  • Extract from : « Jennie Gerhardt » by Theodore Dreiser
  • Wouldn't he find out from the major if she had garbled the sense of his dispatch?
  • Extract from : « A Sappho of Green Springs » by Bret Harte
  • How often a garbled account has been given, and yet the whole was so terribly simple!
  • Extract from : « Cleopatra, Complete » by Georg Ebers
  • It has always been garbled in the journals, and even in history.
  • Extract from : « Roughing It » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • False narratives and garbled stories will, in any case, of a certainty get about.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Charles Dickens » by Charles Dickens

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