Garbled - English meaning

prefix

Variant spelling of ad- assimilated before -l (as in alleviate, allocate ).

suffix

(forming adjectives) relating to; of the kind of.

abbreviation

Alabama (in official postal use).

verb

Make or become unclear or less distinct.

Usage examples:

Tears blurred her vision

noun

A thing that cannot be seen or heard clearly.

Usage examples:

The pale blur of her face

adjective

(of a person) stupid, clumsy, or confused.

Usage examples:

It was kinda funny seeing how blur someone can be when having to do a task they have no clue about

verb

Make (someone or something) different; alter or modify.

Usage examples:

Both parties voted against proposals to change the law

noun

An act or process through which something becomes different.

Usage examples:

The change from a nomadic to an agricultural society

verb

Make (someone) bewildered or perplexed.

Usage examples:

Past and present blurred together, confusing her still further

verb

To cause someone to feel uncertain or unclear, or to make something difficult to understand

Usage examples:

You’re confusing me – please repeat the directions more slowly., you’re confusing me with my sister…

verb

Pull or twist out of shape.

Usage examples:

A grimace distorted her mouth

verb

To change something from its natural or usual shape or condition

Usage examples:

Agony distorted his face., there are those who would distort the facts to serve their own political…

verb

To change something from its original, natural, or intended meaning, condition, or shape, especially in a negative way

Usage examples:

Governments are able to maintain discriminatory procurement practices which significantly distort t…

noun

An untidy collection or pile of things.

Usage examples:

The books were in a chaotic jumble

verb

Mix up in a confused or untidy way.

Usage examples:

A drawer full of letters jumbled together

noun

A confused mixture or mass of things

Usage examples:

A jumble of papers on the desk, the events of the last few weeks are all jumbled up in my mind.

verb

Interpret (a person's words or actions) wrongly.

Usage examples:

My advice was deliberately misconstrued

verb

To form a false understanding of the meaning or intention of something that someone does or says

Usage examples:

Johnson complained that his statements were misconstrued.

verb

Interpret (something or someone) wrongly.

Usage examples:

I think you're misinterpreting the situation

verb

To not understand or explain something correctly

Usage examples:

She felt that her comments had been misinterpreted., [ c ] if a patient isn’t honest, that can lead…

verb

Quote (a person or a piece of written or spoken text) inaccurately.

Usage examples:

The government insisted that the official had been misquoted

noun

A passage or remark quoted inaccurately.

Usage examples:

A misquote from a poem by robert burns

verb

To repeat something someone has said or written in a way that is not accurate

Usage examples:

Lines from his essay were misquoted in the book.

verb

Give a false or inaccurate account of (something).

Usage examples:

The press exaggerated and misreported the response to the film

noun

A false or incorrect report.

Usage examples:

I am also curious as to whether those reports did in fact report movement of the ship, or whether i…

verb

To make known information that is not completely true or correct

Usage examples:

The magazine misreported its sales figures in order to boost advertising revenue.

verb

Give a false or misleading account of the nature of.

Usage examples:

You are misrepresenting what i said

verb

To represent something or someone falsely, often in order to obtain an advantage

Usage examples:

He misrepresented facts about his legal experience on his application.

verb

To give false information about something or someone, often in order to get an advantage

Usage examples:

She believes that the defendant's lawyers misrepresented the situation., be misrepresented (by sb/i…

verb

Make wrong or inaccurate statements about.

Usage examples:

To say that he was alone misstates the case

verb

To state something that is false or not accurate

Usage examples:

The quarterly report misstated the amount of grant money distributed., misstate facts/numbers/figures

verb

To express a fact that is not correct

Usage examples:

Yesterday's obituary of randall m. klose misstated the date of his death.

verb

Translate (something) incorrectly.

Usage examples:

Passages from the bible were either mistranslated or taken out of context

verb

To translate words, documents, etc. (= change them into a different language) in a way that is not correct

Usage examples:

On several occasions, officials mistranslated documents., the interpreter had mistranslated., the n…

verb

Bring into a disordered or confusing state.

Usage examples:

I fear he may have muddled the message

noun

An untidy and disorganized state or collection.

Usage examples:

The finances were in a muddle

noun

A messy and confused state

Usage examples:

Her life was in a muddle.

adjective

Not discovered or known about; uncertain.

Usage examples:

His origins and parentage are obscure

verb

Keep from being seen; conceal.

Usage examples:

Grey clouds obscure the sun

adjective

Not known to many people

Usage examples:

An obscure 18th-century painter, official policy has changed for reasons that remain obscure.

verb

Speak (words) indistinctly so that the sounds run into one another.

Usage examples:

He was slurring his words like a drunk

noun

An insinuation or allegation about someone that is likely to insult them or damage their reputation.

Usage examples:

The comments were a slur on staff at the hospital

verb

To pronounce the sounds of a word in a way that is wrong or not clear

Usage examples:

Her speech was slurred but she still denied she was drunk.

verb

Form into a bent, curling, or distorted shape.

Usage examples:

A strip of metal is twisted to form a hollow tube

noun

An act of twisting something around a stationary point.

Usage examples:

The taps needed a single twist to turn them on

verb

Cause an object to assume a curved or distorted shape

verb

Make or become bent or twisted out of shape, typically as a result of the effects of heat or damp.

Usage examples:

Moisture had warped the box

noun

A twist or distortion in the shape of something.

Usage examples:

The head of the racket had a curious warp

verb

(of a surface or hard material) to bend or twist so that the surface is no longer flat or straight

Usage examples:

[ t ] water poured in, ruining carpets, warping walls, destroying wiring., the novel is an appraisa…