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garble
/ˈɡɑɹbəl/
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What does garble mean?
verb
- To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose not intended by the original author; to mutilate; to pervert.
- To make false by mutilation or addition.
- To corrupt; to make unreadable, incomprehensible, or unintelligible.
More meanings (5)
noun
- Confused or unintelligible speech.
- (obsolete) Refuse; rubbish.
- (obsolete) Mutilation.
- (obsolete) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings.
verb
- (obsolete) To sift or bolt; to separate the fine or valuable parts of (something) from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɡɑɹbəl/
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Voluptuousness, thirst of power, and selfishness,—the three forces in humanity which Christianity has done most to garble and besmirch,—Nietzsche endeavours to reinstate in their former places of honour.
When Greek Art ran and reached the goal, Thus much had the world to boast ‘in fructu’-- The Truth of Man, as by God first spoken, Which the actual generations garble, Was re-uttered, and Soul (which Limbs betoken) And Limbs (Soul informs) made new in marble.