GARBLE Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words

garble

verb

ˈgär-bəl

Definition of garble

as in to distort

to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of the candidate complained that his views had been deliberately garbled by his opponent

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as in to filter

to remove usually visible impurities from garbled spices are less likely to contaminate a recipe

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Recent Examples of garble SecNav’s just a big fan, and that message got garbled in a chain-of-command game of telephone. — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2025 Data-poisoning tools like Nightshade, which can garble some AI outputs, may be a more effective solution for concerned artists. — Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 8 Oct. 2024 The idea may be, to garble Anna Karenina in a botlike way, that all plagiarisms are alike — but that obfuscates the idiosyncrasies of art and, indeed, of technology. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2024 Packets can be lost or delayed, for example, when a network is busy, creating unintentional silences that can garble speech or cause callers to talk over one another. — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2014 See All Example Sentences for garble

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This can, in turn, distort their expectations of real relationships.

— Megan Kelly, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2026
The layer can distort incoming starlight before sensors can process it.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of distort

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Inuspheresis—colloquially known as blood washing—is the newest therapy available at Lanserhof Tegernsee, selected for its ability to filter a wide range of unwanted substances from your plasma.

— Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2026
These include tenocytes [the primary component of tendons]; the cells that wrap around blood vessels and stabilize the circulatory system; the smooth muscle cells of the colon; and kidney epithelial cells, which filter toxins from the blood.

— Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of filter

Verb

Defense Secretary Hegseth saying the reports of poor conditions have been completely misrepresented.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
Still, that correction has been used to manipulate the study data in a way that significantly misrepresents miscarriage risk associated with Covid-19 vaccinations.

— Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of misrepresent

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Open Doors helped clarify a lot of things, so the next step is to sit with that and push the project into a solid draft.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 16 Aug. 2026
District leaders used them to rethink instruction, align classroom practice with system supports, build capacity among school supervisors and principals, and clarify what students should know and be able to do.

— Michael Casserly, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of clarify

Verb

However, measures in place to limit the spread, such as regular handwashing and social distancing, are not followed at the artisanal mining sites, where work to extract gold is done by workers using basic hand tools like shovels and pans.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
Hoffman was born in Brooklyn, one of 10 children in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, and raised in Montreal after her Canadian mother extracted the family.

— Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of extract

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In July, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health also cited Lineage for rodent and pest-control violations, fining the company $500 per day until the violations were corrected.

— Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
In 2024, a tourist was fined 12,500 kroner ($1,300) after attempting to approach a walrus.

— Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of fine

Verb

No one is as refined as the Ohio State star, but Coleman’s potential as a 6-foot-3, 210-pound, do-everything game-wrecker is tantalizing.

— Nick Baumgardner, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Diehl calls it one of the oldest tricks in styling, the pairing of something refined against something plain.

— Pooja Mistry, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of refine

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