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garble
[ gahr-buhl ]
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verb
to distort or take misleading quotations from
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- First recorded between 1400鈥�50.
- From Arabic gharbala, meaning “to sift.”
EXAMPLES OF GARBLE
- Critics accused the documentary of deliberately garbling the historical speech.
- The headline completely garbled what was actually said in the interview.
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- First recorded between 1880鈥�1900.
- From Sanskrit vak, meaning “speech.”
- Ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *飞别办史-, meaning “to speak;” from this root, we also get the words vocal, voice, and vow.
EXAMPLES OF BUKH
- After accepting the job offer, she took to social media to bukh about this next chapter in her career.
- They couldn’t resist bukhing about their kid’s skill on the violin.
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