Usually means: Distorts message, making it unclear.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. garbles: Merriam-Webster
  2. garbles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. garbles: Vocabulary.com
  4. garbles: Wordnik
  5. garbles: Wiktionary
  6. garbles: Dictionary.com
  7. garbles: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. garbles: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. garbles: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. garbles: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Garbles: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See garble as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (garble)

verb:  To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose not intended by the original author; to mutilate; to pervert.
verb:  To make false by mutilation or addition. [from 17th c.]
verb:  To corrupt; to make unreadable, incomprehensible, or unintelligible.
verb:  (obsolete) To sift or bolt; to separate the fine or valuable parts of (something) from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt. [14th–19th c.]
noun:  Confused or unintelligible speech.
noun:  (obsolete) Refuse; rubbish.
noun:  (obsolete) Mutilation.
noun:  (obsolete) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings.
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