garbled

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gar‧bled/ˈɡɑːbəld $ ˈɡɑːr-/ adjective
[date : 1400-1500; Origin : garble 'to remove impure parts by putting through a container with small holes' (15-19 centuries), from Old Italian garbellare, from Arabic gharbala, from ghirbal 'sieve']
a garbled statement or report is very unclear and confusing SYN confused:
　 ▪ The papers had some garbled version of the story.
　 ▪ a garbled phone message

—garble verb [TRANSITIVE]

—garble noun [UNCOUNTABLE]

adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The newspapers had some garbled version of the story.
▪ The voice on the tape was too garbled to understand.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ During the Renaissance, for example, it surfaced repeatedly albeit in somewhat garbled form.
▪ It was the peculiar accent that puzzled me before; it made Alice's words sound garbled, nonsensical.
▪ Rachel was not an easy person to go to with such a strange and garbled fear.
▪ The account appears in garbled form in the New Testament.
▪ There were a few more garbled words, part of an argument, then a loud noise and a scream.