— garbleable , adj. — garbler , n.
/gahr"beuhl/ , v. , garbled, garbling , n.
v.t.
1. to confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble: to garble instructions.
2. to make unfair or misleading selections from or arrangement of (fact, statements, writings, etc.); distort: to garble a quotation.
3. Archaic. to take out the best of.
n.
4. the act or process of garbling.
5. an instance of garbling; a garbled phrase, literary passage, etc.
[ 1400-50; late ME garbelen to remove refuse from spices garbellare to sift gharbala cribellare, deriv. of cribellum, dim. of L cribrum sieve (see -ELLE); prob. influenced by GARBOIL ]