v.
[
often as adj. garbled]
reproduce (a message or transmission) in a confused and distorted way.
n.
a garbled account or transmission.
Derivative
Etymology
ME (in the sense ‘sift out, cleanse’): from Anglo-Latin and Ital. garbellare, from Arab. ġarbala ‘sift’, perh. from late L. cribellare ‘to sieve’.
