garble

garble is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices.
2. transitive verb. To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.
3. noun. Refuse; rubbish.
4. noun. Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; -- also called garblings.
5. verb. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

   Synonyms: distort, falsify, warp

Synonyms

distort, falsify, warp

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in garble:

gabler, garbel, legbar

Common word forms

garbled, garbler, garbles, garbling, garbleable

Words from these letters

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