garble
verb (used with object)
to confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble.
are garbling
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present progressiveof garble.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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For when we say bug, or for that matter bogy or bugbear, we are garbling the sound which our very, very forefathers uttered when they saw a specter or hobgoblin.
From Edge of the Jungle by Beebe, William
Really, Sir, some of you Reverends will exclaim, how you are garbling that twenty-first article!
From Two Addresses One to the Gentlemen of Whitby and the other, to the Protestant Clergy by Rigby, Nicholas
