garbles
Scrambles the words
Garbles is the third-person singular of garble, meaning to distort or scramble information so it becomes confused or misleading.
A bad connection garbles phone calls.
Rumors garble facts.
Someone who garbles a message renders it unintelligible: The translation software garbles idioms.
Less commonly, garbles refers to instances of garbled content.
Misrepresents or deforms
- scramblesMixes into disorder
- corruptsCauses moral decline
- manglesDisfigures or distorts severely
- muddlesCreates disorder or confusion
warps · misrepresents · twists · falsifies · skews · alters · manipulates · misstates
Speaks indistinctly
- slursDemeaning identity-based insults
- stuttersSpeaks with repetitions
- stammersSpeaks with involuntary pauses
- babblesTalks incoherently or excessively
mutters · splutters · lisps · mispronounces · misspeaks · fumbles · botches · bungles
Without motion or change
- interferenceUnwelcome involvement in affairs
- noiseUnwanted auditory disturbance
- distortionTwisting from original state
- corruptionDishonest abuse of power
fuzz · crackle · hiss · dropout · glitch · artifact · pixelation · breakup
Causes moral decline
- scramblesMixes into disorder
- encryptsConverts to cipher
- encodesConverts into protected format
- obfuscatesRenders unclear intentionally
redacts · censors · mangles · misrenders · truncates · gibberish · nonsense · unreadable
distorts
Misrepresents or deforms
muddles · warps · misrepresents · twists · falsifies · skews · alters · manipulates · misstates · slants
mumbles
Speaks indistinctly
- slursDemeaning identity-based insults
- stuttersSpeaks with repetitions
- stammersSpeaks with involuntary pauses
babbles · mutters · splutters · lisps · mispronounces · misspeaks · fumbles · botches · bungles · flubs
static
Without motion or change
- interferenceUnwelcome involvement in affairs
- noiseUnwanted auditory disturbance
- distortionTwisting from original state
corruption · fuzz · crackle · hiss · dropout · glitch · artifact · pixelation · breakup · lag
corrupts
Causes moral decline
obfuscates · redacts · censors · mangles · misrenders · truncates · gibberish · nonsense · unreadable · illegible
garblesclarifies
Makes more understandable
elucidates · articulates · explains · enunciates · illuminates
garblespreserves
Cooked fruit in sugar
maintains · reproduces · transmits · records · captures
garblesportrays
Performs as another
shows · represents · conveys · preserves · reproduces
- garbled messageCommunication rendered incomprehensible
- garbled audioDistorted, incomprehensible sound
- message garbled