1. the act of distorting or confusing information, speech, or text so that it becomes unclear or inaccurate

Examples

• The garbling of the message led to widespread confusion.
• Poor phone reception caused garbling of the important announcement.
• The garbling of facts in the report made it unreliable.
• Technical problems resulted in garbling of the audio transmission.
• The garbling of her words made it difficult to understand her point.
• Data corruption led to garbling of the computer files.