Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word GARBLE
GARBLE
Definitions of GARBLE
- Confused or unintelligible speech.
- To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert.
- (obsolete) Refuse; rubbish.
- (obsolete) mutilation
- (obsolete) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings.
- To make false by mutilation or addition.
- (obsolete) To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using GARBLE in a Sentence
- Musicologist William Echard cites the clavioline part as an example of a psychedelic feature he calls a "garble line" – a musical part that "often meanders widely through pitch space, following a rhythmic profile that does not adhere strongly to the prevailing harmonic or melodic logic" – with "Orientalist connotations".
- – Prince Blueblood, Pony Joe, Garble, Doughnut Joe, Flash Sentry, Dignitary, Duke of Maretonia, Yellow Changeling, Gray Throne Guard 2, Feather Bangs, Villager, Rumble (S7E21), Sandbar, Skeptical Somnambula Villager, Illusionary Changeling #2.
- The circumstances which led to their production are set out in Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets in the life of Edmund Smith: George Duckett had misled John Oldmixon, to the effect that Smith had been employed by Francis Atterbury and others to garble Lord Clarendon's history before it was published.
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