Entry Word: garble

Function: verb

Meaning: to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of <the candidate complained that his views had been deliberately garbled by his opponent>

Synonyms color, distort, falsify, misinterpret, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, twist, warp

Related Words belie, camouflage, disguise, mask, veil; complicate, confound, confuse, mix up; mystify, obscure, puzzle; equivocate, fib, lie, palter, prevaricate

Near Antonyms clarify, clear (up), explain, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, spell out; decipher