say it: GAHR-buhld
garbled is an adjective meaning "lacking orderly continuity". It carries one recorded sense.
lacking orderly continuity
“a confused set of instructions”
“a confused dream about the end of the world”
“disconnected fragments of a story”
“scattered thoughts”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for garbled come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.