Definition of "garbled" []

• Difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of garble. (verb)

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• "Any VoIP packet out of sequence results in garbled transmissions."
• "It seems that Valvasor made the logical (but incorrect) assumption that Lintvern (which is a garbled form of the German word Lindwurm, meaning dragon) was so named because it was the source of olms (which were fancifully regarded as dragon larvae at the time)."
• "So how does Hansbrough feel about having his name garbled so often."