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/gˈɑrbəl/ Listen

verb

Garble v. t. (past & past part. garbled; pres. part. garbling)

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. (Obs.)

To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.

noun

Garble n.

Refuse; rubbish. (Obs.)

pl. Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; also called garblings.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Garble" Quotes from Famous Books

... into the cottage where Clement lived with his mother. He did not garble his news, for it needed no artistic touch; and, with nice sense of his perfect and effective instrument, he realised the weapon was amply sharp enough without whetting, and employed the story as it came into his hand. But Mr. Coomstock ...

— Children of the Mist • Eden Phillpotts

... completely in his element. Three things hitherto best-cursed and most calumniated on earth, are brought forward to be weighed. 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. Voluptuousness, or sensual pleasure, is a dangerous thing to discuss nowadays. If we mention it with favour we may be regarded, however unjustly, as the ...

— Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None • Friedrich Nietzsche