1. to distort or confuse a message, text, or information so that it becomes unclear or incorrect
2. to mix up or corrupt data during transmission or processing
Usage: technical

Examples

• The poor phone connection garbled his voice during the interview.
• She garbled the message when she tried to repeat it from memory.
• The translation software garbled the meaning of the original text.
• Static on the radio garbled the weather report.
• Don’t garble the facts when you tell the story.
• The computer virus garbled all the files on his hard drive.
• His nervousness caused him to garble his prepared speech.