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Garble v. t. (past & past part. garbled; pres. part. garbling)

To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices. (Obs.)

To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Garble" Quotes from Famous Books

... Boulevard mysteries, a kind of rude moral. The Boulevard writers don't pretend to "tabernacles" and divine gifts, like Madame Sand and Dumas before mentioned. If they take a story from the sacred books, they garble it without mercy, and take sad liberties with the text; but they do not deal in descriptions of the agreeably wicked, or ask pity and admiration for tender-hearted criminals and philanthropic murderers, as their betters ...

— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray

Words linked to "Garble" : mutilate, falsify, belie, warp