Garble vs Confuse - What's the difference?
garble | confuse |
(obsolete) To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices.
To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.
To make false by mutilation or addition
(obsolete) refuse; rubbish
(obsolete) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings.
(Webster 1913)
To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
(obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
To mistake one thing for another.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between garble and confuse
is that garble is (obsolete) impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc; garblings while confuse is (obsolete) to rout; discomfit.As verbs the difference between garble and confuse
is that garble is (obsolete) to sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices while confuse is to thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.As a noun garble
is (obsolete) refuse; rubbish.garble
English
Verb
- The editor garbled the story.
Derived terms
* garbley gookNoun
(en noun)- (Wolcott)