Definition of garbles Garbles
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What does garbles mean?
Part of speech
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| garble - make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | ||
| falsify, distort, warp | ||
| belie, misrepresent represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions" | ||
| murder, mutilate, mangle kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- garble (Noun)
refuse; rubbish. - garble (Noun)
Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc. ; garblings. - garble (Verb)
To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices. - garble (Verb)
To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account. - garble (Verb)
To make false by mutilation or addition.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- garble (v. t.)
To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices. - garble (v. t.)
To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account. - garble (n.)
Refuse; rubbish. - garble (n.)
Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; -- also called garblings.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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garble
gär′bl, v.t. to select what may serve our own purpose, in a bad sense: to mutilate, corrupt, or falsify.—n. Gar′bler, one who selects. [Most prob. It. garbellare—Ar. ghirbál, a sieve.]
