(of a message etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled

simple past tense and past participle of garble

To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert / To make false by mutilation or addition [from 17th c.]

Confused or unintelligible speech. / (obsolete) Refuse; rubbish. / (obsolete) mutilation / (obsolete) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of garble

present participle of garble

The act by which something is garbled or confused. / The process of removing the unwanted substances present in crude drugs after drying.

plural of garbling

garbled; incoherent