garble

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Confused or unintelligible speech. countable,uncountable
    — The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.
  2. Refuse; rubbish. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  3. Mutilation. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Did not the lady smile upon the garble
  4. Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings. countable,obsolete,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. 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
  2. To make false by mutilation or addition.
    — The editor garbled the story.
  3. To corrupt; to make unreadable, incomprehensible, or unintelligible.
  4. To sift or bolt; to separate the fine or valuable parts of (something) from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt. obsolete
    — to garble spices

词形变化

garbles present,singular,third-person garbling participle,present garbled participle,past garbled past garbles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
garbleable garbled garblement garbler garbley gook garbly ungarble

词源

词源 1
From Middle English garbelen, from Anglo-Norman garbeler (“to sift”), from Medieval Latin garbellare (or a similar Italian word), from Arabic غَرْبَلَ (ḡarbala, “to sift”).
词源 2
From Middle English garbelen, from Anglo-Norman garbeler (“to sift”), from Medieval Latin garbellare (or a similar Italian word), from Arabic غَرْبَلَ (ḡarbala, “to sift”).
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