garbled
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- v make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- s lacking orderly continuity
- The radio conversation was routine until the last transmission from the plane, which was garbled.
- Then the Van Climbers scowl and growl at the inaccuracy of the garbled stories, threaten to sue the offending journals.
- But somehow he truncated and garbled the lines, carried away by rhetoric.