garble
Confused or unintelligible speechConfused or unintelligible speech.
» Someone left me a voice mail but it was all garbled. I couldn't understand a thing.
Кто-то оставил мне голосовое сообщение, но оно неразборчивое. Я не могу ничего понять. — caponych
darinmex · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
4 senses(countable, uncountable)Confused or unintelligible speech.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Refuse; rubbish.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Mutilation.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings.
Examples
2 sentencesSomeone left me a voice mail but it was all garbled. I couldn't understand a thing.
ruКто-то оставил мне голосовое сообщение, но оно неразборчивое. Я не могу ничего понять. — caponych
Many programs leave Japanese text garbled and unreadable.
Origin
From Middle English garbelen, from Anglo-Norman garbeler (“to sift”), from Medieval LatinFrom Middle English garbelen, from Anglo-Norman garbeler (“to sift”), from Medieval Latin garbellare (or a similar Italian word), from Arabic غَرْبَلَ (ḡarbala, “to sift”).
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Forms
plural: garblesWord family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.