garbling

The word “garbling” has 2 syllables: gar-bling

It's pronounced as /ˈɡɑr.blɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for garbling?

In the thesaurus, “garbling” has 60 synonyms and 20 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for garbling

  • belying
  • bending
  • bolting
  • bowdlerizing
  • camouflaging
  • censoring
  • clarifying
  • cleaning
  • cleansing
  • clearing
  • coloring
  • complicating
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • cooking
  • decontaminating
  • disguising
  • disinfecting
  • dissembling
  • distilling
  • distorting
  • elutriating
  • equivocating
  • extracting
  • falsifying
  • fibbing
  • filtering
  • fining
  • fudging
  • leaching
  • lying
  • masking
  • misdescribing
  • misinterpreting
  • misrelating
  • misrepresenting
  • misspeaking
  • misstating
  • mistaking
  • mistranslating
  • mystifying
  • obscuring
  • paltering
  • perverting
  • prevaricating
  • processing
  • purging
  • purifying
  • rectifying
  • refining
  • sanitizing
  • screening
  • sieving
  • sifting
  • slanting
  • twisting
  • veiling
  • warping
  • washing
  • whitewashing

Antonyms for garbling

  • begriming
  • besmirching
  • clarifying
  • clouding
  • contaminating
  • deciphering
  • defiling
  • dirtying
  • dulling
  • explaining
  • fouling
  • illuminating
  • illustrating
  • interpreting
  • muddying
  • polluting
  • soiling
  • spelling out
  • sullying
  • tainting

Meanings of garbling

  • 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.
  • noun
    1. The act by which something is garbled or confused.
    2. The process of removing the unwanted substances present in crude drugs after drying.

Example Sentences

  • The bad connection was garbling his words, making it hard to understand him.
  • Please speak slowly and clearly to avoid garbling the message.
  • The static from the radio was garbling the transmission, causing interruptions.
  • The translator was garbling the meaning of the sentence, leading to confusion.
  • The malfunctioning microphone was garbling the speaker's voice, distorting the audio.

On this page you'll find 80 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to garbling, such as: begriming, belying, bending, besmirching, bolting, bowdlerizing, camouflaging.

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

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fabricating

  • accomplishing
  • ad-libbing
  • architecture
  • arrangement
  • assembling
  • assembly
  • beginning
  • beguiling
  • build
  • building
  • carpentering
  • cast
  • coining
  • combining
  • coming up with
  • composing
  • composition
  • conceiving
  • conception
  • concocting
  • confecting
  • constituting
  • constitution
  • constructing
  • contour
  • contriving
  • cozening
  • crafting
  • creating
  • cut
  • daydreaming
  • deceiving
  • defaming
  • deluding
  • designing
  • development
  • devising
  • disposition
  • dissembling
  • dissimulating
  • distorting
  • dreaming
  • drumming up
  • duping
  • edifice
  • effecting
  • elevation
  • envisaging
  • envisioning
  • equivocating
  • erecting
  • erection
  • establishing
  • excogitating
  • executing
  • extemporizing
  • fabric
  • fabrication
  • falsifying
  • fantasizing
  • fashioning
  • fathering
  • fibbing
  • figuration
  • figure
  • fooling
  • foreswearing
  • forging
  • form
  • format
  • formation
  • forming
  • forswearing
  • foundation
  • founding
  • framing
  • fudging
  • garbling
  • generating
  • gulling
  • hammering
  • handcrafting
  • hatching
  • hewing
  • hoaxing
  • hoodwinking
  • imagining
  • improvisation
  • improvising
  • inaugurating
  • initiating
  • innovating
  • instituting
  • inventing
  • invention
  • jerry-building
  • kidding
  • knocking out
  • libeling
  • libelling
  • lying
  • makeup
  • making
  • making up
  • manufacture
  • manufacturing
  • minting
  • misguiding
  • misinforming
  • misleading
  • misreporting
  • misrepresenting
  • misstating
  • mold
  • molding
  • organizing
  • originating
  • origination
  • outline
  • paltering
  • perjuring
  • picturing
  • piecing
  • plan
  • planning
  • prefab
  • prefabricating
  • prefabrication
  • prevaricating
  • producing
  • putting together
  • putting up
  • raising
  • rearing
  • reassembling
  • rebuilding
  • reconstructing
  • redeveloping
  • reedifying
  • refashioning
  • remaking
  • remanufacturing
  • retrofitting
  • roadwork
  • setting up
  • shape
  • shaping
  • slandering
  • snowing
  • structure
  • structuring
  • system
  • systematization
  • taking in
  • throwing up
  • traducing
  • tricking
  • trumping up
  • turn
  • type
  • uniting
  • visioning
  • visualizing

falsifying

  • belying
  • bending
  • bowdlerizing
  • camouflaging
  • censoring
  • challenging
  • coloring
  • committing perjury
  • complicating
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • confuting
  • contesting
  • cooking
  • debating
  • debunking
  • deceitful
  • deceptive
  • delusive
  • delusory
  • disconfirming
  • discrediting
  • discussing
  • disguising
  • disproving
  • dissembling
  • dissimulating
  • distorting
  • double-crossing
  • double-dealing
  • doubting
  • equivocating
  • false
  • fibbing
  • forsworn
  • fudging
  • garbling
  • giving the lie to
  • guileful
  • inventing
  • lying
  • masking
  • mendacious
  • misdescribing
  • misinterpreting
  • misleading
  • misrelating
  • misrepresenting
  • misspeaking
  • misstating
  • mistaking
  • mistranslating
  • mistrusting
  • mooting
  • mystifying
  • obscuring
  • overthrowing
  • overturning
  • paltering
  • perfidious
  • perjured
  • perverting
  • prevaricating
  • querying
  • questioning
  • rebutting
  • refuting
  • shifty
  • shooting down
  • slanting
  • talking over
  • treacherous
  • tricky
  • twisting
  • two-faced
  • two-timing
  • unreliable
  • untruthful
  • veiling
  • warping
  • whitewashing
  • wrong

warping

  • abasing
  • bastardizing
  • befouling
  • begriming
  • belying
  • bending
  • blemishing
  • bowdlerizing
  • camouflaging
  • cankering
  • censoring
  • cheapening
  • coiling
  • coloring
  • complicating
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • contaminating
  • contorting
  • contortion
  • cooking
  • corrupting
  • curling
  • damaging
  • debasing
  • debauching
  • defacement
  • defacing
  • defiling
  • deformation
  • deforming
  • deformity
  • degrading
  • demeaning
  • demoralizing
  • depraving
  • depreciating
  • descending
  • destroying
  • deteriorating
  • diluting
  • dirtying
  • disfigurement
  • disfiguring
  • disgracing
  • disguising
  • dishonoring
  • dissembling
  • distorting
  • distortion
  • downgrading
  • equivocating
  • falsifying
  • fibbing
  • flawing
  • fudging
  • garbling
  • harming
  • humbling
  • humiliating
  • hurting
  • impairing
  • lessening
  • looping
  • lying
  • malformation
  • marring
  • masking
  • misdescribing
  • misinterpreting
  • misrelating
  • misrepresenting
  • misshaping
  • misspeaking
  • misstating
  • mistaking
  • mistranslating
  • mystifying
  • obscuring
  • paltering
  • perverting
  • poisoning
  • polluting
  • prevaricating
  • profaning
  • prostituting
  • ruining
  • screwing
  • shaming
  • slanting
  • spiraling
  • spiralling
  • spoiling
  • squinching
  • staining
  • subverting
  • tainting
  • taking down
  • tarnishing
  • thinning
  • torturing
  • twining
  • twisting
  • veiling
  • vitiating
  • watering down
  • weakening
  • whitewashing
  • winding
  • wreathing
  • wrecking
  • wrenching
  • wresting
  • wringing

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