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garbled

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Main Entry:
1gar·ble 
          Listen to the pronunciation of 1garble
Pronunciation:
\ˈgär-bəl\
Function:
transitive verb
Inflected Form(s):
gar·bled; gar·bling 
          Listen to the pronunciation of garbling \-b(ə-)liŋ\
Etymology:
Middle English garbelen, from Old Italian garbellare to sift, from Arabic gharbala, from Late Latin cribellare, from cribellum sieve; akin to Latin cernere to sift — more at certain
Date:
15th century
1archaic : cull 12: to sift impurities from3 a: to so alter or distort as to create a wrong impression or change the meaning <garble a story> b: to introduce textual error into (a message) by inaccurate encipherment, transmission, or decipherment
gar·bler 
          Listen to the pronunciation of garbler \-b(ə-)lər\ noun


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