garbling

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of garble

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act by which something is garbled or confused.

   “Well, such cheap criticisms of the Bible are usually the fulsome garblings of ignorance, or the shifty device of prejudice.”

2. (countable, uncountable)The process of removing the unwanted substances present in crude drugs after drying.