- falsify: make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- (garbled) confused: lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"
- To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices; To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account; To make false by mutilation or ...
- (garbled) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled
- (Garbled) Garbling was the (illegal) practice of mixing cargo with garbage.
- (garbled) The modification of a cryptographic key in which one or more of its elements (e.g., bit, digit, character) has been changed or destroyed. [800-130] (see also cryptographic, destruction, key)
- [JP 1-02] (DoD) An error in transmission, reception, encryption, or decryption that changes the text of a message or any portion thereof in such a manner that it is incorrect or undecryptable.
- (v): to distort in such a way as to make unintelligible
- γarbala, sift; ultimately from Latin cribellum, sieve
- to make unfair decision from facts