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garbled — gar|bled [ˈga:bəld US ˈga:r ] adj [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: garble to remove impure parts by putting through a container with small holes (15 19 centuries), from Old Italian garbellare, from Arabic gharbala, from ghirbal sieve ] a garbled… … Dictionary of contemporary English
garbled — [[t]gɑ͟ː(r)b(ə)ld[/t]] ADJ GRADED A garbled message or report contains confused or wrong details, often because it is spoken by someone who is nervous or in a hurry. The Coastguard needs to decipher garbled messages in a few minutes. ...his own… … English dictionary
garbled — adjective a garbled statement or report is very unclear and confusing: The papers had some garbled version of the story. | a garbled phone message … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
Garbled — Garble Gar ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Garbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Garbling}.] [Formerly, to pick out, sort, OF. grabeler, for garbeler to examine precisely, garble spices, fr. LL. garbellare to sift; cf. Sp. garbillar to sift, garbillo a coarse… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
garbled — gar|bled [ garbld ] adjective confusing or not accurate: a garbled and unconvincing explanation … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
garbled — un·garbled; … English syllables
garbled — UK [ˈɡɑː(r)b(ə)ld] / US [ˈɡɑrb(ə)ld] adjective confusing, or not accurate a garbled and unconvincing explanation … English dictionary
garbled — [ˈgɑːb(ə)ld] adj not correctly organized or explained, and difficult to understand a garbled explanation/message[/ex] … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
garbled — adjective (of a message etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled Syn: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, distorted, illogical, mixed up, scattered, unconnected … Wiktionary
garbled — Synonyms and related words: affected, aimless, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, beyond one, biased, bogus, brummagem, butchered, castrated, catachrestic, colorable, colored, complex, complicated, cooked, counterfeit, counterfeited,… … Moby Thesaurus
