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   Gar·ble

   /ˈɡärb(ə)l/

   

   verb

   • 1. reproduce (a message, sound, or transmission) in a confused and distorted way: "the connection was awful and kept garbling his voice"

   noun

   • 1. a garbled account or transmission: "most readers assumed the word was a typographical garble"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘sift out, cleanse’): from Anglo-Latin and Italian garbellare, from Arabic ġarbala ‘sift’, perhaps from late Latin cribellare ‘to sieve’, from Latin cribrum ‘sieve’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. garbler noun

   Scrabble Points: 9

   • G

     2

   • A

     1

   • R

     1

   • B

     3

   • L

     1

   • E

     1

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