Associations to the word «Garble»
Wiktionary
GARBLE, verb. (obsolete) To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices.
GARBLE, verb. To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.
GARBLE, verb. To make false by mutilation or addition
GARBLE, noun. (obsolete) refuse; rubbish
GARBLE, noun. (obsolete) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings.
Dictionary definition
GARBLE, verb. Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.