GARBLE Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words

garble

verb

ˈgär-bəl

as in to distort

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

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as in to filter

to remove usually visible impurities from garbled spices are less likely to contaminate a recipe

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Recent Examples of garble The idea may be, to garble Anna Karenina in a botlike way, that all plagiarisms are alike — but that obfuscates the idiosyncrasies of art and, indeed, of technology. —

Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2024 Sometimes Flux repeats or garbles words, and sometimes new words are confabulated into place. —

Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2024 Those calls were sparked by the president’s poor debate performance against Trump on June 27, where Biden often garbled his words and lost his train of thought. —

Dan Mangan, CNBC, 12 July 2024 Packets can be lost or delayed, for example, when a network is busy, creating unintentional silences that can garble speech or cause callers to talk over one another. —

IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2014 See All Example Sentences for garble

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Since his return to office in 2025, this firehose of lies has only accelerated, distorting everything from economic data to constitutional law.

— Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2026
Zhiwei Zhang, president and chief economist at Pinpoint Asset Management, said the data was distorted by the timing of the Lunar New Year, which falls in mid-February this year after taking place in January last year.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2026