English language

How to pronounce garble in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms distort, falsify, warp
Type of belie, misrepresent
Has types mangle, murder, mutilate

Examples of garble

garble
Part of the grocery garble stems from America's hodgepodge system of food regulation.
From the time.com
My instructor yelled some instructions at me and they sounded like complete garble-dee-goop.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
So why did the writer either garble the words, or unquestioningly parrot people saying fairly crazy things?
From the theatlantic.com
The system somehow managed to badly garble my first post, and the edit function didn't seem to work.
From the economist.com
But in his case, the man saw nothing wrong with the garble.
From the sciencedaily.com
The system somehow managed to badly garble my first post, and the edit function didn't seem to work.
From the economist.com
Which is a shame, because where are we going to get our legitimately unreadable celebrity garble from now?
From the hecklerspray.com
It seems that other parts of the world will be subject to superficial garble like this article for a while.
From the economist.com
There is, though, a garble at the end of it.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Falsify: make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
  • (garbled) confused: lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"
  • 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; To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account; To make false by mutilation or ...
  • (garbled) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled
  • (Garbled) Garbling was the (illegal) practice of mixing cargo with garbage.
  • (garbled) The modification of a cryptographic key in which one or more of its elements (e.g., bit, digit, character) has been changed or destroyed. [800-130] (see also cryptographic, destruction, key)
  • [JP 1-02] (DoD) An error in transmission, reception, encryption, or decryption that changes the text of a message or any portion thereof in such a manner that it is incorrect or undecryptable.
  • (v): to distort in such a way as to make unintelligible
  • To make unfair decision from facts