garbles

The word “garbles” has 2 syllables: gar-bles

It's pronounced as /ˈɡɑr.bəlz/


What is synonym and antonym for garbles?

In the thesaurus, “garbles” has 61 synonyms and 20 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for garbles

  • belies
  • bends
  • bolts
  • bowdlerizes
  • camouflages
  • censors
  • clarifies
  • cleans
  • cleanses
  • clears
  • colors
  • complicates
  • confounds
  • confuses
  • cooks
  • decontaminates
  • disguises
  • disinfects
  • dissembles
  • distills
  • distils
  • distorts
  • elutriates
  • equivocates
  • extracts
  • falsifies
  • fibs
  • filters
  • fines
  • fudges
  • leaches
  • lies
  • masks
  • misdescribes
  • misinterprets
  • misrelates
  • misrepresents
  • misspeaks
  • misstates
  • mistakes
  • mistranslates
  • mystifies
  • obscures
  • palters
  • perverts
  • prevaricates
  • processes
  • purges
  • purifies
  • rectifies
  • refines
  • sanitizes
  • screens
  • sieves
  • sifts
  • slants
  • twists
  • veils
  • warps
  • washes
  • whitewashes

Antonyms for garbles

  • begrimes
  • besmirches
  • clarifies
  • clouds
  • contaminates
  • deciphers
  • defiles
  • dirties
  • dulls
  • explains
  • fouls
  • illuminates
  • illustrates
  • interprets
  • muddies
  • pollutes
  • soils
  • spells out
  • sullies
  • taints

Meanings of garbles

  • 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

  • The old tape recorder often garbles the sound, making it difficult to understand.
  • Loud background noise garbles the speaker's voice during phone calls.
  • The faulty microphone garbles the singer's performance, distorting the sound.
  • Please check the connection, it sometimes garbles the transmission.
  • The poor audio quality of the video garbles the dialogue, making subtitles necessary.

On this page you'll find 81 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to garbles, such as: begrimes, belies, bends, besmirches, bolts, bowdlerizes, camouflages.

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

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  • gulls
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  • manufactures
  • mints
  • misguides
  • misinforms
  • misleads
  • misreports
  • misrepresents
  • misstates
  • molds
  • organizes
  • originates
  • palters
  • perjures
  • pictures
  • pieces
  • prefabricates
  • prevaricates
  • produces
  • puts together
  • puts up
  • raises
  • rears
  • reassembles
  • rebuilds
  • reconstructs
  • redevelops
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  • takes in
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  • visions
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falsifies

  • adulterate
  • belie
  • belies
  • bends
  • bowdlerizes
  • camouflages
  • censors
  • challenges
  • change
  • color
  • colors
  • complicates
  • con
  • confounds
  • confuses
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  • contests
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  • contradict
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  • 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

warps

  • abases
  • anchorages
  • assumptions
  • backbones
  • bases
  • bastardizes
  • bedrocks
  • beds
  • befouls
  • begrimes
  • belies
  • bends
  • blemishes
  • bottoms
  • bowdlerizes
  • braces
  • bulwarks
  • buttresses
  • camouflages
  • cankers
  • censors
  • centers
  • cheapens
  • coils
  • colors
  • complicates
  • confounds
  • confuses
  • contaminates
  • contorts
  • cooks
  • cores
  • cornerstones
  • corrupts
  • curls
  • damages
  • debases
  • debauches
  • defaces
  • defiles
  • deforms
  • degrades
  • demeans
  • demoralizes
  • depraves
  • depreciates
  • descends
  • destroys
  • deteriorates
  • dilutes
  • dirties
  • disfigures
  • disgraces
  • disguises
  • dishonors
  • dissembles
  • distorts
  • downgrades
  • equivocates
  • essences
  • eyes
  • falsifies
  • fibs
  • flaws
  • foci
  • focuses
  • footings
  • foundations
  • frameworks
  • fudges
  • garbles
  • grounds
  • groundworks
  • harms
  • hearts
  • hubs
  • humbles
  • humiliates
  • hurts
  • impairs
  • infrastructures
  • justifications
  • kernels
  • keystones
  • lessens
  • lies
  • loops
  • mars
  • masks
  • misdescribes
  • misinterprets
  • misrelates
  • misrepresents
  • misshapes
  • misspeaks
  • misstates
  • mistakes
  • mistranslates
  • mounts
  • mystifies
  • nuclei
  • nucleuses
  • obscures
  • palters
  • perverts
  • poisons
  • pollutes
  • premises
  • premisses
  • presumptions
  • presuppositions
  • prevaricates
  • profanes
  • props
  • prostitutes
  • quintessences
  • rationales
  • roots
  • ruins
  • screws
  • seats
  • shames
  • shores
  • slants
  • souls
  • spirals
  • spoils
  • squinches
  • stains
  • stays
  • substrata
  • substructures
  • subverts
  • supports
  • suppositions
  • taints
  • takes down
  • tarnishes
  • theories
  • theses
  • thins
  • tortures
  • touchstones
  • twines
  • twists
  • underpinnings
  • veils
  • vitiates
  • warp and woofs
  • warrants
  • waters down
  • weakens
  • whitewashes
  • winds
  • wreathes
  • wrecks
  • wrenches
  • wrests
  • wrings

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