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- First recorded between 1300鈥�50.
- From the Latin root 肠濒腻谤耻蝉, meaning “clear;” related to the word clear.
EXAMPLES OF GLAIR
- The baker brushed the pastry with glair to give it a glossy finish.
- They used glair as a natural adhesive in the bookbinding process.
garble
[ gahr-buhl ]
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verb
to distort or take misleading quotations from
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Why Dictionary.com chose garble
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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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