- to confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble: to garble instructions.
- to make unfair or misleading selections from or arrangement of (fact, statements, writings, etc.); distort: to garble a quotation.
- to take out the best of.
- the act or process of garbling.
- an instance of garbling; a garbled phrase, literary passage, etc.
- to jumble (a story, quotation, etc), esp unintentionally
- to distort the meaning of (an account, text, etc), as by making misleading omissions; corrupt
- to select the best part of
- the act of garbling
- garbled matter
