Usually means: Distort message clarity or meaning.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word garble:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. garble: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. garble: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. garble: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. garble: Collins English Dictionary
  5. garble: Vocabulary.com
  6. Garble, garble: Wordnik
  7. garble: Wiktionary
  8. garble: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. garble: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. garble: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Garble, garble: Dictionary.com
  12. garble: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Garble: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Garble: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. garble: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. garble: Rhymezone
  17. garble: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. garble: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. garble: Free Dictionary
  20. garble: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. garble: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. garble: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. garble: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. garble: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. garble: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. garble: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See garbled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (garble)

verb:  To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose not intended by the original author; to mutilate; to pervert.
verb:  To make false by mutilation or addition. [from 17th c.]
verb:  To corrupt; to make unreadable, incomprehensible, or unintelligible.
verb:  (obsolete) To sift or bolt; to separate the fine or valuable parts of (something) from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt. [14th–19th c.]
noun:  Confused or unintelligible speech.
noun:  (obsolete) Refuse; rubbish.
noun:  (obsolete) Mutilation.
noun:  (obsolete) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings.

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