garble
verb
the message was garbled in transmission:
mix up, muddle, jumble, confuse, blur, slur, obscure, distort, twist, twist around, warp, misstate, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, mistranslate, misinterpret, misconstrue;
tamper with, tinker with, change, alter, doctor, falsify, pervert, corrupt, adulterate;
rare misarticulate, misrender.
garble Oxford Dictionary of English