decrypt

verb

de·​crypt (ˌ)dē-ˈkript 

decrypted; decrypting; decrypts

transitive verb

: decode sense 1a

decryption

(ˌ)dē-ˈkrip-shən 

noun

Synonyms

• break
• crack
• decipher
• decode

Examples of decrypt in a Sentence

decrypting the Germans' code was one of the Allies' greatest triumphs

Recent Examples on the Web

What Zimmermann had not anticipated was that a team of British code breakers was intercepting wireless communications and decrypting them in a secret location, known simply as Room 40, in the British Naval Office. —Timothy W. Ryback, The Atlantic, 11 Apr. 2025

This proactive approach involves not only the technical challenge of upgrading encryption methods, but also ensuring that critical data—some of which might be harvested now and decrypted later—remains protected as quantum hardware scales. —Yuval Boger, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025

The folder isn’t decrypted by default, and is opened by your device’s unlock, this enables other apps to access the folder. —Zak Doffman, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025

Working the night shift, the onetime president of his graduating class decrypted copies of codes obtained from local telegraph operators. —Peter Zablocki, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025

Word History

Etymology

de- + -crypt (in cryptanalysis, cryptogram), perhaps after decipher

First Known Use

1935, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for decrypt

• conscript
• descript
• encrypt
• equipped
• outstripped
• postscript
• rescript
• subscript
• transcript
• transhipped
• transshipped
• typescript