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| 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' |
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gar‧bled
The papers had some garbled version of the story.a garbled phone message —garble verb [transitive]
—garble noun [uncountable]
