garbling
garbling is the present participle and gerund of garble.
Noun
garbling (countable and uncountable, plural garblings)
- The act by which something is garbled or confused.
- Well, such cheap criticisms of the Bible are usually the fulsome garblings of ignorance, or the shifty device of prejudice.1992, J. Sidlow Baxter, Mark These Men: A Unique Look at Selected Men of the Bible, page 55
- The process of removing the unwanted substances present in crude drugs after drying.
Meaning of garble
Verb
garble (third-person singular simple present garbles, present participle garbling, simple past and past participle garbled)
- To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose not intended by the original author; to mutilate; to pervert.
- to garble a quotation
- To make false by mutilation or addition.
- The editor garbled the story.
- To corrupt; to make unreadable, incomprehensible, or unintelligible.
- The announcement was completely garbled.
- Synonyms:
- scramble
- To sift or bolt; to separate the fine or valuable parts of (something) from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt.
- to garble spices
Forms of garbling
| plural | garblings |
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Origin of garbling
From garble + -ing.
Questions about garbling
- What does garbling mean?
- Garbling means the act by which something is garbled or confused.
- What is garbling the present participle and gerund of?
- Garbling is the present participle and gerund of garble.
- What part of speech is garbling?
- Garbling is a noun.
- What is the plural of garbling?
- The plural of garbling is garblings.
Words near garbling in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: garbling (page history and authors); garble (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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