Broken and Garbled

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Broken adjective - Forcibly separated into many pieces.

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Garbled and broken are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Garbled" instead an adjective "Broken".

Nearby Words: broke, brokenly

Garbled adjective - Lacking orderly continuity.

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Broken and garbled are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Broken" instead an adjective "Garbled".

Nearby Word: garbling

Lost in Transmission: In the book and in the first movie, the Australians hear garbled Morse Code radio messages from the United States (Seattle in the book, San Diego in the first movie), which turn out to be caused by a broken window frame striking a telegraph key.

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