Definitions
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- adjective difficult to understand because it has been
distorted ;scrambled - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
garble .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking orderly continuity
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Examples
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Any VoIP packet out of sequence results in garbled transmissions.
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It seems that Valvasor made the logical (but incorrect) assumption that Lintvern (which is a garbled form of the German word Lindwurm, meaning dragon) was so named because it was the source of olms (which were fancifully regarded as dragon larvae at the time).
Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006
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So how does Hansbrough feel about having his name garbled so often.
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So how does Hansbrough feel about having his name garbled so often.
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Either that, or the meaning of the phrase was garbled by the time it reached Homer.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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Either that, or the meaning of the phrase was garbled by the time it reached Homer.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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As the remaining chapters of this book demonstrate, the women I met and worked with in Magude did not have vacant or "garbled" memories.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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My first post was kind of garbled because of my unfamiliarity with XHTML coding.
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The resettlement process was still agonizingly slow in Magude in the mid-1990s, but naming memoriesnot "garbled" at allwere serving the generation of interviewees rather well.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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It is not clear whether she sold the product in the green bean, roasted, "garbled" (ground), or
All About Coffee 1909
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