| Library / English Dictionary |
GARBLE
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they garble ... he / she / it garbles
Past simple: garbled
Past participle: garbled
-ing form: garbling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
Synonyms:
distort; falsify; garble; warp
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "garble" is one way to...):
belie; misrepresent (represent falsely)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "garble"):
mangle; murder; mutilate (alter so as to make unrecognizable)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
