garble

The word “garble” has 2 syllables: gar-ble

It's pronounced as /ˈɡɑr.bəl/


What is synonym and antonym for garble?

In the thesaurus, “garble” has 68 synonyms and 30 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for garble along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for garble

  • belie
  • bend
  • bolt
  • bowdlerize
  • camouflage
  • censor
  • clarify
  • clean
  • cleanse
  • clear
  • color
  • complicate
  • confound
  • confuse
  • cook
  • corrupt
  • decontaminate
  • disguise
  • disinfect
  • dissemble
  • distil
  • distill
  • distort
  • doctor
  • elutriate
  • equivocate
  • extract
  • falsify
  • fib
  • filter
  • fine
  • fudge
  • jumble
  • leach
  • lie
  • mask
  • misdescribe
  • misinterpret
  • mislead
  • misquote
  • misrelate
  • misrepresent
  • misspeak
  • misstate
  • mistake
  • mistranslate
  • mutilate
  • mystify
  • obscure
  • palter
  • pervert
  • prevaricate
  • process
  • purge
  • purify
  • rectify
  • refine
  • sanitize
  • screen
  • sieve
  • sift
  • slant
  • tamper with
  • twist
  • veil
  • warp
  • wash
  • whitewash

Antonyms for garble

  • begrime
  • besmirch
  • clarify
  • clear up
  • cloud
  • contaminate
  • decipher
  • defile
  • dirty
  • dull
  • explain
  • foul
  • illuminate
  • illustrate
  • interpret
  • leave alone
  • muddy
  • order
  • organize
  • pollute
  • pronounce
  • purify
  • represent
  • soil
  • spell out
  • straighten
  • sully
  • taint
  • translate
  • unscramble

Meanings of garble

  • noun
    1. Confused or unintelligible speech.
    2. Refuse; rubbish.
    3. Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings.
  • verb
    1. To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert.
    2. To make false by mutilation or addition.
    3. To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt.

Example Sentences

  • Garble in communication can lead to misunderstandings and confusion.
  • Please ensure you speak clearly so as not to garble your message.
  • The poor reception caused the radio transmission to garble.
  • It's important not to garble important information when relaying it to others.
  • The loud background noise made it difficult to hear anything but a garble of voices.

On this page you'll find 98 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to garble, such as: begrime, belie, bend, besmirch, bolt, bowdlerize, camouflage.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • ad-lib
  • assemble
  • begin
  • beguile
  • brainstorm
  • build
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  • combine
  • come up with
  • compose
  • conceive
  • concoct
  • confect
  • constitute
  • construct
  • contrive
  • cook up
  • counterfeit
  • cozen
  • craft
  • create
  • daydream
  • deceive
  • defame
  • delude
  • design
  • devise
  • dissemble
  • dissimulate
  • distort
  • dream
  • dream up
  • drum up
  • dupe
  • envisage
  • envision
  • equivocate
  • erect
  • establish
  • excogitate
  • extemporize
  • fake
  • falsify
  • fantasize
  • fashion
  • father
  • feign
  • fib
  • fit together
  • fool
  • foreswear
  • forge
  • form
  • formulate
  • forswear
  • found
  • frame
  • fudge
  • garble
  • generate
  • gull
  • hammer
  • handcraft
  • hatch
  • head trip
  • hew
  • hoax
  • hoodwink
  • imagine
  • improvise
  • inaugurate
  • initiate
  • innovate
  • institute
  • invent
  • jerry-build
  • jive
  • join
  • kid
  • knock out
  • knock together
  • libel
  • lie
  • make
  • make like
  • make up
  • manufacture
  • mint
  • misguide
  • misinform
  • mislead
  • misreport
  • misrepresent
  • misstate
  • mix
  • mold
  • organize
  • originate
  • palter
  • perjure
  • picture
  • piece
  • piece together
  • prefab
  • prefabricate
  • pretend
  • prevaricate
  • produce
  • put together
  • put up
  • raise
  • rear
  • reassemble
  • rebuild
  • reconstruct
  • redevelop
  • reedify
  • refashion
  • remake
  • remanufacture
  • retrofit
  • set up
  • shape
  • slander
  • snow
  • structure
  • take in
  • think up
  • throw together
  • throw up
  • traduce
  • trick
  • trump up
  • turn out
  • unite
  • vision
  • visualize
  • whip up
  • whomp up

jive

  • BS
  • Charleston
  • Dixieland
  • Janus-faced
  • Pecksniffian
  • absurdity
  • act
  • adulation
  • advertise
  • affect
  • affected
  • aggrandize
  • alibi
  • allege
  • allusion
  • amuse
  • annoy
  • answer
  • apologetics
  • apologia
  • apologizing
  • apology
  • applause
  • applesauce
  • approbation
  • argot
  • argument
  • artfulness
  • artifact
  • artifice
  • artificial
  • assume
  • assumed
  • attract attention
  • babble
  • backhanded
  • badger
  • badinage
  • bait
  • balderdash
  • baloney
  • bamboozle
  • bamboozlement
  • bananas
  • banter
  • be at
  • be deceitful
  • be hypocritical
  • be noncommittal
  • beat around the bush
  • bebop
  • bedevil
  • beg the question
  • beguile
  • beleaguer
  • belie
  • bend
  • betray
  • bias
  • bilk
  • bill of goods
  • blandishment
  • blarney
  • blather
  • blow
  • blow hot and cold
  • blow smoke
  • blues
  • bluff
  • bluster
  • boast
  • bogus
  • bombast
  • bon mot
  • boogie
  • boogie down
  • boogie-woogie
  • boondoggle
  • bootlicking
  • bop
  • bother
  • buckle
  • bull
  • bully
  • bunco
  • bunk
  • bunkum
  • bunny hop
  • bureaucratese
  • burlesque
  • burn
  • buzz
  • caboodle
  • cajolery
  • campy
  • cant
  • canting
  • caricature
  • caricaturize
  • cartoon
  • catch
  • cavil
  • chaff
  • chat
  • chatter
  • chatty
  • cheat
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • chitchat
  • chouse
  • circumvent
  • circumvention
  • claim
  • claim falsely
  • claptrap
  • cleanup
  • clip
  • cloud the issue
  • cock-a-doodle-doo
  • coin
  • colloquial
  • colloquialism
  • colloquy
  • coloring
  • come-off
  • commendation
  • comment
  • common
  • communication
  • communion
  • computerese
  • con
  • con game
  • concoct
  • concoction
  • confab
  • confabulation
  • conference
  • confidence game
  • conga
  • congratulate oneself
  • consultation
  • contortion
  • contrive
  • contrived
  • conversation
  • conversational
  • converse
  • cop a plea
  • cop out
  • cop-out
  • counterfeit
  • cover
  • cover story
  • cover up
  • cover-up
  • coverup
  • cozen
  • cozening
  • crack
  • crack wise
  • craft
  • craftiness
  • crap
  • craziness
  • create fiction
  • crock
  • crookedness
  • crow
  • cry
  • cunning
  • cut a rug
  • cyberspeak
  • debate
  • deceit
  • deceitful
  • deceive
  • deception
  • decoy
  • defense
  • deflate
  • defraud
  • delude
  • demotic
  • deride
  • device
  • devil
  • devious
  • devise
  • dialect
  • dialectal
  • diddle
  • dirty dealing
  • dirty pool
  • dirty trick
  • dirty work
  • disco
  • discussion
  • disguise
  • dishonest
  • dishonesty
  • disinform
  • dissemblance
  • dissemble
  • dissimulate
  • dissimulation
  • distort
  • disturb
  • ditch
  • divert
  • do
  • do a number on
  • do number on
  • do out of
  • dodge
  • dodging
  • dog
  • double
  • double-cross
  • double-deal
  • double-dealing
  • double-faced
  • double-talk
  • drivel
  • duck
  • dupe
  • duplicity
  • educationese
  • elaborate explanation
  • elude
  • elusion
  • embezzle
  • empty
  • empty talk
  • encomium
  • entertain
  • equivocate
  • equivocating
  • equivocation
  • escape
  • eschew
  • eschewal
  • eulogy
  • evade
  • evading
  • evasion
  • evasiveness
  • everyday
  • exaggerate
  • exaggeration
  • exchange
  • exculpation
  • excuse
  • excusing
  • exoneration
  • expedient
  • explaining
  • expose
  • expression
  • extenuation
  • exult
  • eyewash
  • fable
  • fabricate
  • facade
  • facetious
  • facile
  • fairy story
  • fake
  • fake out
  • fakery
  • fallacy
  • false
  • false front
  • falsehood
  • falsify
  • fancy footwork
  • farce
  • fast one
  • fast shuffle
  • fatuity
  • fawning
  • feign
  • feigned
  • feint
  • fence
  • fib
  • fiction
  • figment
  • fish
  • fish story
  • fix
  • flapdoodle
  • flatter oneself
  • flattering
  • flaunt
  • fleece
  • fleer
  • flightiness
  • flimflam
  • flip-flop
  • flourish
  • flout
  • flummery
  • foil
  • folly
  • fool
  • foolery
  • foolishness
  • foot it
  • forced
  • forge
  • forgery
  • form
  • foul play
  • fox
  • foxtrot
  • frame
  • fraud
  • frolic
  • fudge
  • fudging
  • fugiviteness
  • fugivity
  • fulsomeness
  • fun
  • funny
  • fusion jazz
  • futile talk
  • gab
  • gag
  • gallantry
  • gambol
  • game
  • garbage
  • garble
  • gasconade
  • get down
  • gibberish
  • gibe
  • giddiness
  • gimmick
  • gird
  • give a good account of oneself
  • give a hard time
  • give the runaround
  • glib
  • gloat
  • glory
  • gnaw
  • goad
  • gobbledygook
  • goof on
  • gossip
  • governmentese
  • grandstand
  • grapevine
  • grounds
  • gull
  • hanky-panky
  • harass
  • harry
  • haze
  • hearing
  • hearsay
  • hector
  • hedge
  • hem and haw
  • hint
  • hoax
  • hoaxing
  • hocus-pocus
  • hogwash
  • hokum
  • hollow
  • hollow words
  • honeyed words
  • hoodwink
  • hooey
  • hop
  • horse around
  • hot air
  • hot jazz
  • hot-dog
  • hug oneself
  • humbug
  • humiliate
  • hustle
  • hypocrisy
  • hypocritical
  • hypocritical respect
  • hypocriticalness
  • idiocy
  • idiom
  • idiomatic
  • idle talk
  • illogicality
  • illogicalness
  • illude
  • illusion
  • imitation
  • impersonate
  • importune
  • impose on
  • impose upon
  • impostor
  • imposture
  • improbability
  • improvisational music
  • imprudence
  • inanity
  • incongruity
  • ingratiation
  • innuendo
  • insanity
  • insincere
  • insincerity
  • insinuation
  • intercourse
  • intorsion
  • invent
  • invention
  • irrationality
  • jabber
  • jape
  • jargon
  • jaw
  • jazz
  • jeer
  • jest
  • jibe
  • jig
  • jitter
  • jitterbug
  • jocular
  • joke
  • jolly
  • josh
  • journalese
  • juggle
  • juke
  • jump
  • justification
  • kid
  • kid around
  • lampoon
  • language
  • laud
  • laugh
  • laugh at
  • lay claim
  • lay on thick
  • lead on
  • lead up garden path
  • leap
  • left-handed
  • let on
  • lie
  • line
  • lingo
  • lip
  • lip devotion
  • lip homage
  • lip praise
  • lip reverence
  • lip worship
  • localism
  • ludicrousness
  • madness
  • make a fool of
  • make a game of
  • make a laughingstock
  • make believe
  • make fun of
  • make like
  • make merry
  • make out
  • make up
  • makeshift
  • malarkey
  • malconformation
  • malformation
  • malinger
  • masquerade
  • mealy
  • mealymouthed
  • meaningless
  • mechanical
  • milk
  • mimic
  • mince words
  • misguide
  • misinterpretation
  • mislead
  • misrepresent
  • misrepresentation
  • misshape
  • misspeak
  • misstatement
  • misuse
  • mitigation
  • mock
  • mockery
  • monologue
  • mousetrap
  • mouth
  • mouth honor
  • mouthing
  • mumbo jumbo
  • mush
  • mutilation
  • myth
  • needle
  • noise
  • nonsense
  • nudge
  • number
  • obliqueness
  • obsequiousness
  • observation
  • off-time
  • one-liner
  • one-step
  • opus
  • outfox
  • outwit
  • palaver
  • palter
  • pan
  • parlance
  • parley
  • parody
  • parry
  • pass off
  • pass oneself off as
  • pass the buck
  • pat oneself on the back
  • patois
  • patter
  • persiflage
  • perversion
  • pester
  • pharisaical
  • pharisaism
  • phoney
  • phoney-baloney
  • phoniness
  • phony
  • phony up
  • phony-baloney
  • pick on
  • pidgin
  • piffle
  • pilfer
  • pillow talk
  • pious
  • pitch
  • plague
  • plant
  • plaudits
  • play
  • play a trick on
  • play for a fool
  • play the clown
  • play trick on
  • play tricks
  • play-act
  • plea
  • pleasantry
  • poke fun
  • poke fun at
  • pooh-pooh
  • poppycock
  • popular
  • prank
  • prate
  • prattle
  • preen
  • pretend
  • pretended
  • pretense
  • pretext
  • pretty speech
  • prevaricate
  • prevarication
  • profess
  • promenade
  • promote
  • prose
  • provincialism
  • psych
  • psych out
  • puff
  • puffery
  • pull fast one
  • pull wool over
  • purport
  • pussyfoot
  • put down
  • put on
  • put one over on
  • put up a front
  • put-on
  • questioning
  • quibble
  • quip
  • quiz
  • racket
  • rag
  • ragtime
  • rail at
  • raillery
  • rally
  • ranting
  • rashness
  • rationalization
  • razz
  • regionalism
  • regrets
  • rejoinder
  • remark
  • repartee
  • reply
  • report
  • response
  • retort
  • return
  • revel
  • rhumba
  • rib
  • rib-tickler
  • ride
  • ridicule
  • ridiculousness
  • rigmarole
  • rip off
  • ripoff
  • roast
  • rob
  • rodomontade
  • rook
  • rot
  • routine
  • rubbish
  • rumble
  • rumor
  • run around
  • run down
  • runaround
  • ruse
  • sales talk
  • sally
  • samba
  • sanctimonious
  • satirize
  • scam
  • scoff
  • scorn
  • scout
  • scrawl
  • scribble
  • scuttlebutt
  • self-righteous
  • sell
  • sellout
  • semblance
  • send up
  • senselessness
  • set up
  • shady deal
  • shaft
  • sham
  • sharp practice
  • shell game
  • shift
  • shilly-shally
  • shirking
  • shoot
  • shop
  • shoptalk
  • shovel
  • show off
  • show up
  • showboat
  • shuck
  • shuffle
  • shuffling
  • shunning
  • sidestep
  • silliness
  • simon-pure
  • simulate
  • simulated
  • sit on the fence
  • slam
  • slang
  • slanguage
  • slant
  • sling
  • small talk
  • smoke
  • smooth talk
  • snap
  • snare
  • sneer
  • snow
  • snow job
  • soft soap
  • soft words
  • soft-soap
  • song
  • song and dance
  • sophism
  • sophistry
  • sound
  • sound off
  • speak with forked tongue
  • speech
  • spiel
  • spin
  • spoof
  • sport
  • stab in the back
  • stall
  • step
  • stick
  • sting
  • stonewall
  • stopgap
  • story
  • strained
  • stratagem
  • street
  • stretch the truth
  • string along
  • stroking
  • strut
  • stultiloquence
  • stunt
  • stupidity
  • substitute
  • subterfuge
  • suck in
  • sucker
  • sucker into
  • superficial
  • swagger
  • sweet-talk
  • swindle
  • swing
  • swipe at
  • sycophancy
  • take
  • take for a ride
  • take in
  • take off
  • take the mickey out of
  • take to the cleaners
  • takeoff
  • talk
  • talk big
  • talkfest
  • tall story
  • tango
  • tantalize
  • tap
  • taunt
  • tease
  • technobabble
  • tell a little white lie
  • tell white lie
  • temporize
  • tergiversate
  • tergiverse
  • terminology
  • the business
  • thoughtlessness
  • toadyism
  • token agreement
  • tokenism
  • tomfoolery
  • tongue-in-cheek
  • torment
  • torture
  • trap
  • trash
  • travesty
  • treachery
  • tribute
  • trick
  • trickery
  • trickiness
  • trifle
  • trip the light fantastic
  • tripe
  • triumph
  • truckling
  • trump up
  • twaddle
  • twist
  • twistedness
  • twit
  • two-faced
  • two-step
  • unctuous
  • unctuousness
  • unmask
  • unnatural
  • unreasonableness
  • untruth
  • untruthful
  • useless words
  • vapor
  • vaunt
  • ventilation
  • vernacular
  • vernacularism
  • vex
  • victimize
  • vindication
  • visit
  • vocabulary
  • waffle
  • waltz
  • warp
  • weasel
  • whitewash
  • why and wherefore
  • wile
  • wiliness
  • wisecrack
  • witticism
  • work
  • worry
  • wrinkle
  • wrong
  • yak
  • yarn
  • yuck
  • yuk

falsifies

  • adulterate
  • belie
  • belies
  • bends
  • bowdlerizes
  • camouflages
  • censors
  • challenges
  • change
  • color
  • colors
  • complicates
  • con
  • confounds
  • confuses
  • confutes
  • contests
  • contort
  • contradict
  • contravene
  • cook
  • cooks
  • counterfeit
  • deacon
  • debates
  • debunks
  • deceive
  • deny
  • disconfirms
  • discredits
  • discusses
  • disguises
  • disproves
  • dissembles
  • distort
  • distorts
  • doctor
  • doubts
  • dress up
  • embroider
  • equivocate
  • equivocates
  • exaggerate
  • fake
  • fake it
  • fib
  • fibs
  • forge
  • four-flush
  • frame up
  • fudges
  • garble
  • garbles
  • gives the lie to
  • gloss
  • lie
  • lies
  • masks
  • misdescribes
  • misinterprets
  • misquote
  • misrelates
  • misrepresents
  • misspeaks
  • misstate
  • misstates
  • mistakes
  • mistranslates
  • mistrusts
  • moots
  • mystifies
  • obscures
  • overthrows
  • overturns
  • palter
  • palters
  • pervert
  • perverts
  • phony up
  • prevaricate
  • prevaricates
  • promote
  • put on an act
  • queries
  • questions
  • rebuts
  • refutes
  • salt
  • shoots down
  • slants
  • talks over
  • tamper with
  • traverse
  • trump up
  • twist
  • twists
  • veils
  • warp
  • warps
  • whitewashes

falsify

  • adulterate
  • belie
  • bend
  • bowdlerize
  • camouflage
  • censor
  • challenge
  • change
  • color
  • complicate
  • con
  • confound
  • confuse
  • confute
  • contest
  • contort
  • contradict
  • contravene
  • cook
  • counterfeit
  • deacon
  • debate
  • debunk
  • deceive
  • deny
  • disconfirm
  • discredit
  • discuss
  • disguise
  • disprove
  • dissemble
  • distort
  • doctor
  • doubt
  • dress up
  • embroider
  • equivocate
  • exaggerate
  • fake
  • fake it
  • fib
  • forge
  • four-flush
  • frame up
  • fudge
  • garble
  • give the lie to
  • gloss
  • lie
  • mask
  • misdescribe
  • misinterpret
  • misquote
  • misrelate
  • misrepresent
  • misspeak
  • misstate
  • mistake
  • mistranslate
  • mistrust
  • moot
  • mystify
  • obscure
  • overthrow
  • overturn
  • palter
  • pervert
  • phony up
  • prevaricate
  • promote
  • put on an act
  • query
  • question
  • rebut
  • refute
  • salt
  • shoot down
  • slant
  • talk over
  • tamper with
  • traverse
  • trump up
  • twist
  • veil
  • warp
  • whitewash

warp

  • abase
  • anchorage
  • assumption
  • backbone
  • base
  • basis
  • bastardize
  • bed
  • bedrock
  • befoul
  • begrime
  • belie
  • bend
  • blemish
  • bottom
  • bowdlerize
  • brace
  • brutalize
  • bulwark
  • buttress
  • camouflage
  • canker
  • censor
  • center
  • cheapen
  • coil
  • color
  • complicate
  • confound
  • confuse
  • contaminate
  • contort
  • cook
  • core
  • cornerstone
  • corrupt
  • crook
  • curl
  • curve
  • damage
  • debase
  • debauch
  • deface
  • defile
  • deform
  • degrade
  • demean
  • demoralize
  • deprave
  • depreciate
  • descend
  • destroy
  • deteriorate
  • deviate
  • dilute
  • dirty
  • disfigure
  • disgrace
  • disguise
  • dishonor
  • dissemble
  • distort
  • downgrade
  • equivocate
  • essence
  • eye
  • falsify
  • fib
  • flaw
  • focus
  • footing
  • foundation
  • framework
  • fudge
  • garble
  • ground
  • groundwork
  • harm
  • heart
  • hub
  • humble
  • humiliate
  • hurt
  • impair
  • infrastructure
  • justification
  • kernel
  • keystone
  • lessen
  • lie
  • loop
  • mar
  • mask
  • misdescribe
  • misinterpret
  • misrelate
  • misrepresent
  • misshape
  • misspeak
  • misstate
  • mistake
  • mistranslate
  • mount
  • mystify
  • nucleus
  • obscure
  • palter
  • pervert
  • poison
  • pollute
  • premise
  • premiss
  • presumption
  • presupposition
  • prevaricate
  • profane
  • prop
  • prostitute
  • quintessence
  • rationale
  • root
  • ruin
  • screw
  • seat
  • shame
  • shore
  • slant
  • soul
  • spiral
  • spoil
  • squinch
  • stain
  • stay
  • substratum
  • substructure
  • subvert
  • support
  • supposition
  • swerve
  • taint
  • take down
  • tarnish
  • theory
  • thesis
  • thin
  • torture
  • touchstone
  • turn
  • twine
  • twist
  • underpinning
  • veil
  • vitiate
  • warp and woof
  • warrant
  • water down
  • weaken
  • whitewash
  • wind
  • wreathe
  • wreck
  • wrench
  • wrest
  • wring

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