garble
verb (used with object)
to confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble.
have garbled
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present perfectof garble.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Some of you may have garbled the phrase on occasion — I have — into something like ‘Our schools are drowning in a rising tide of mediocrity.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2012
It is very foolish, that little history—wicked perhaps; but those provincial gossips may have garbled and disfigured the story.
From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
And I maintain that the article you have garbled in your quotation gives a fair and adequate account of the The World, Jan.
From The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by Whistler, James McNeill
