Definitions

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  • verb transitive To make intelligible; to restore from a garbled state.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ garble

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Examples

  • Somewhere, the kind ladies who taught you grammar cringe. ungarble reasons

    A new way to procrastinate on revision « 2009

  • If they made the word "missionaries" four quavers, tucking in the final syllable before the third beat would be enough to ungarble this line.

    Expecting Rain 2008

  • If they made the word "missionaries" four quavers, tucking in the final syllable before the third beat would be enough to ungarble this line.

    Expecting Rain 2008

  • It took me a moment to ungarble this: the player had in fact had "a hand in their defeat."

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1 1981

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