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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Garble \Gar"ble\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Garbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Garbling}.] [Formerly, to pick out, sort, OF. grabeler, for garbeler to examine precisely, garble spices, fr. LL. garbellare to sift; cf. Sp. garbillar to sift, garbillo a coarse sieve, L. cribellum, dim. of cribrum sieve, akin to cernere to separate, sift (cf. E. {Discern}); or perh. rather from Ar. gharb[=a]l, gharbil, sieve.]
1. To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices. [Obs.]
2. To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
garbled
adjective: lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts" [syn: {confused}, {disconnected}, {disjointed}, {disordered}, {illogical}, {scattered}, {unconnected}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
123 Moby Thesaurus words for "garbled": affected, aimless, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, beyond one, biased, bogus, brummagem, butchered, castrated, catachrestic, colorable, colored, complex, complicated, cooked, counterfeit, counterfeited, crabbed, cramp, cut short, designless, difficult, distorted, docked, doctored, dressed up, dummy, eisegetical, embellished, embroidered, empty, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, hard, hard to understand, hashed, illegitimate, imitation, importless, inane, inauthentic, insignificant, intricate, jumbled, junky, knotty, lopped, make-believe, man-made, mangled, meaningless, misapprehended, miscited, misconceived, misconstrued, misinterpreted, misquoted, misread, misreported, misrepresented, misstated, mistaken, misunderstood, mock, mutilated, nonconnotative, nondenotative, null, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, overtechnical, perplexed, perverted, phatic, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, purportless, purposeless, put-on, quasi, queer, scrambled, self-styled, senseless, sham, shoddy, simulated, slanted, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, strained, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, tortured, tough, truncated, twisted, unauthentic, unauthoritative, unfounded, ungenuine, unmeaning, unnatural, unreal, unreliable, unsignificant, warped
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