garbled
verb
Meaning
- To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert
- To make false by mutilation or addition
- To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt
- (of a message etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled
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