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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne