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verb, -bled, -bling, noun | 1. | to confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble: to garble instructions. |
| 2. | to make unfair or misleading selections from or arrangement of (fact, statements, writings, etc.); distort: to garble a quotation. |
| 3. | Archaic. to take out the best of. |
| 4. | the act or process of garbling. |
| 5. | an instance of garbling; a garbled phrase, literary passage, etc. |