to scramble

Examples

• All

• Surely doing that to the encoded message would just scramble it still further.

• Sometimes the signal gets scrambled.

  Late Night with the Devil (2024)

• I thought these sat dishes would scramble their signals.

  Enemy of the State (1998)

• As Justice investigates, defense lawyers scramble to learn the nature of the allegations, who filed them, and where.

  Academic text (2006)

• Government officials throughout Central America scrambled to explain the legend hoax and its widespread effects.

  Academic text (2016)

• Now the city's officials were scrambling to patch together a makeshift replacement for the telephone system.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Under pressure to open more reserves to fulfill Brazil's demand, the government scrambles to revise tax codes.

  Academic text (2012)

• "Midwest Telephone technicians are scrambling to deal with a major telecommunications outage affecting the company's entire service area."

  Fiction book (1996)

• To secure the conversation, we should scramble the messages using advanced encryption technology.

• The hackers attempted to scramble the data transmission to prevent detection by cybersecurity teams.

Synonyms

M

to muddle

vsto scramble

24 4.8

Mix things up so they are unclear

targets messages to render them unreadable without special knowledge or tools

O

to obfuscate

vsto scramble

• Formal

17 9.1

To make facts or information unclear on purpose

is specifically about hiding signals so they need special equipment to read

T

to tangle

vsto scramble

7 4.7

To make a story or idea hard to understand

focuses on making communications unintelligible rather than merely complicated

Antonyms

C

to clarify

255 3.3

To make something clear so others can understand it

D

to decode

64 3.8

To change coded information into normal words

U

to unscramble

8 3.3

To put mixed things into the right order or make them clear

Compounds

K

kick bollocks scramble

• Offensive

9.9

A chaotic rushed situation that happens because of poor planning

How Obscured

to encrypt

• Specialized

84 6.7

to scramble

• Specialized

28 7.9

to garble

7 8.0

to hide

∞ 1.0

obscure

37 8.2

Surface Forms

Etymology