(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.
(n.) Refuse; rubbish.
(n.) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; -- also called garblings.
Example Sentences:
(1) His phone calls have become filled with echoes and garbled talk.
(2) Transposition of the corner of the mouth utilizing the Z-plasty technique has proven to be an effective method to correct the drooling and garbled speech associated with facial paralysis.
(3) "When she came out with some particularly garbled bit of folklore and was met with the usual amusement and incomprehension, she retorted 'It may be an old fallacy, but it's true!'
(4) Now 86, Daddy – the 11th Duke of Marlborough - has the garbled, sticky plum crumble diction of the irredeemably posh.
(5) The text seemed more like garbled science fiction than a guide for students and civil servants.
(6) Republican debate: Donald Trump was garbled, incoherent - but dominant Read more But while the doubts stuck to more moderate Republican candidates, in their own way they stuck to the Donald as well.
(7) Wodehouse called it a "frightful label", and his garbled childhood pronunciation, 'Plum', became his affectionate nickname for the rest of his life.
(8) I'll do a round-up shortly... • - and not garbling his chambers of Congress as I unforgivably did earlier.
(9) Clean energy is really struggling because the story has gotten garbled," said Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation .
(10) Experts say an independent run would almost certainly hand the race over to Democrats and likely another Clinton?” Trump was unapologetic, although his explanation was garbled.
(11) Coburn appeared uncomfortable, frequently garbling his words and drawing derisive laughter from the audience.
(12) Each usage is found to be imprecise and unreliable, and many of the usages are garbled, with inappropriate comparisons commonly made among them.
(13) • This article was amended on Monday 29 April 2013 to correct the standfirst, which had become garbled during the editing process.
(14) It doesn’t matter what language you are speaking, if you are speaking in a garbled fashion.” 8.46pm BST Meanwhile my Guardian colleagues and I are being booed ... ... for not participating in the Mexican wave in the stadium.
(15) So far they have revealed little about themselves, posting brief notes and links on Pastebin – a site favoured by hackers to “dump” material – writing in garbled English that suggests it is not their first language.
(16) • This article was updated on 26 July 2014 to edit a garbled quote at the end of the text.
(17) "If (for example) a person doesn't speak very good English, or is simply unclear, it may be better to quote their slightly broken or garbled English than to quote their more precise written work," he wrote, but conceded that this was "an error of judgment".
(18) Unsplitting the infinitive in the New Yorker cartoon caption "I'm moving to France to not get fat" (yielding "I'm moving to France not to get fat") would garble the meaning, and doing so with "Profits are expected to more than double this year," would result in gibberish: "Profits are expected more than to double this year."
(19) Now the maverick electronic producer’s sixth studio album has a release date, an amusingly garbled press release and song titles that are gnomic in the extreme – tracks such as 4 bit 9d api+e+6 [126.26] suggest this won’t be an easy-listening affair with designs on the charts.
(20) • This article was amended on 19 February 2016 to correct a percentage given for Cambridge in the last paragraph and clarify an earlier garbled sentence.
Slur
Definition:
(v. t.) To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
(v. t.) To disparage; to traduce.
(v. t.) To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
(v. t.) To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
(v. t.) To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
(v. t.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
(v. t.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
(n.) A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
(n.) A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
(n.) A mark, thus [/ or /], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.
(n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following points should be emphasized: Besides the right proximal blocks, which are more frequent, right distal ones can also be diagnosed by the presence of slurred R wave and delayed onset of the intrinsicoid deflection in only some right leads.
(2) Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures.
(3) Mostly white men surrounded protesters and shouted racist and Islamophobic slurs and anti-Hillary Clinton chants while moving in closer, said Sudip Bhattacharya.
(4) Racism has been normalised in Sweden, it’s become okay to say the N-word,” she says, recounting how a man on the subway used the racial slur while shouting and telling her to hurry up.
(5) In the youngest animals the presence of an additional peak (between II and III) and the slurring of peaks III and IV were consistent features.
(6) The neurological manifestations developed during adolescence with slurred and slow speech with scanning, muscle flaccidity, sings of Trömner and Jacobson, intentional tremor, equilibrium disturbances.
(7) The family of an Oklahoma man shot to death outside his home are pointing to a history of criminal charges and racial slurs by the alleged killer.
(8) The two men were said to be drunk during the flight when the retired striker was reportedly subjected to racial slurs.
(9) In a clip of the video posted on the newspaper’s website, one of the men appears to be heard calling one of the women a “slit eye” in a racist slur.
(10) Patrick, his stepson, faced similar racial slurs as officers asked him for the location of illegal guns because, as he recalled an officer saying, “you fuckers are making more money a day than I am”.
(11) But even as the city attempted to clean up the mess, another group of at least four San Francisco police officers was exchanging text messages that mocked the community response to the scandal, used racist slurs and denigrated LGBT people.
(12) The two men yelled at each other, and Snow apparently used a racial slur, but would not later give the precise word.
(13) "Would you have run the article if it had contained similar slurs regarding people of colour or people with disabilities?"
(14) The mother, identified only as Joanne, said Goodes should not have singled out her daughter for using the racial slur, and blamed the altercation for the booing and criticism Goodes has faced since.
(15) She has also stumbled over her words and slurred her way through several shows in the past, prompting concerns about her health.
(16) The 69-year-old business mogul has made a series of slurs against immigrants, including the allegation that Mexico is sending “drug dealers” and “rapists” to the US.
(17) The attackers, dressed in dark clothes and wearing masks, had been at the protest hassling people on Monday evening, according to witnesses, who also said they heard them use racial slurs.
(18) Because it's a racial slur and – no matter how many millions it spends trying to sanitize it and silence native peoples – the epithet is not, was not, and will not be an honorific.
(19) And in response to tabloid-inflated hysteria about an influx of Romanian and Bulgarian welfare-hounds, Johnson cracks a cheap jibe about Transylvanians and tents – an undisguised slur on the Roma.
(20) Although he has fiercely rejected claims made by Engelina Tareyeva, a former colleague in Yabloko, that he routinely used "racial slurs", some of his remarks have sailed very close.