DECIPHERED Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

deciphered

verb

past tense of decipher

as in cracked

to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language we deciphered the hidden message to find out when we were supposed to meet

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as in understood

to have a clear idea of a convoluted thriller, the plot of which I was never able to actually decipher

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Recent Examples of deciphered But a more apt comparison might be the Mirabilia Urbis Romae, in which Medieval scholars deciphered the staggering ruins of Classical Rome. — Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2026 Re-creating the Herculaneum scrolls To date, one entire scroll and passages from others have been deciphered, largely thanks to the Vesuvius Challenge, a project launched in 2023 that encourages researchers to decode scrolls for cash prizes. — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026 Uncertainty notwithstanding, the longevity world has glommed onto the notion that the vaginal microbiome is some kind of exotic tealeaf that can be deciphered—and perfected by purchasing the right supplements. — Sarah Digregorio, Vanity Fair, 27 July 2026 Its successor script, Linea B, was also a mystery until it was deciphered in 1952 by an amateur linguist and cryptographer Michael Ventris with the help of classicist John Chadwick, both building on patterns in the script first identified by classicist Alice Kober. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 23 June 2026 The signature was deciphered with the help of AI, and specialists at auction house Lyon & Turnbull were able to confirm that Cadell was the artist. — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 20 June 2026 Among the finds are a 4th-century coin bearing the face of Emperor Constantine, as well as medieval pottery fragments bearing markings archaeologists have not yet deciphered. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2026 What’s more, the back of the painting shows a number code which was deciphered in the project to reveal the year of production—1934. — Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 11 June 2026 And yet… Four risqué jokes that Anne had hidden by covering them with brown paper were deciphered by researchers in 2018. — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 June 2026

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An exorbitant Costco egg order at Monterey school cracked open a ‘disgusting’ embezzlement scheme, police say.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026
One owner, u/leftyhyzer16, said the screen cracked before setup was complete, after opening and closing the phone only a few times.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of cracked

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Before a program can run, the code people write in a programming language such as Python has to be translated, or compiled, into binary, a sequence of 1’s and 0’s that actually tells the computer what to do.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2026
An Estonian named Kreuzwald translated these German tales into Estonian and published them under his own name; another Estonian, Eno Raud, swiped Kreuzwald’s stories, rewrote them a bit, and published them under his own name.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of translated

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Heo Kang Il, an elite defector who managed a North Korean restaurant in China and in 2016 brought 12 of his staff with him to South Korea, knew people subjected to revolutionization and was subjected to it once himself.

— Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026
Everyone who knew and worked with him was familiar with his stories, often told in a regional Texas twang and often more than once – and occasionally with a remarkable addendum.

— Keith McDermott, Vanity Fair, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of knew

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These include a faster editing system that allows users to correct incorrectly decoded text and a lock-screen feature that enables speech communication without first unlocking the phone.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
One solution exploits a mismatch between the way PHP measures compressed files and decoded files.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of decoded

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The polling points to the enduring legacy of 9/11, even as many Americans today are too young to have experienced or comprehended the event a quarter-century ago.

— Linley Sanders, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
The frames keep changing regardless of how much the viewer has noticed or comprehended.

— Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

Definition of comprehended

Verb

While Democrats notched historic upsets nationwide — including in places like Kansas, which broke a 90-year streak — Texas carries outsized national weight given the recent corporate stampede to the state.

— Shelly Banjo, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2026
Tar Heel Democrats also flipped the state House and broke the GOP’s Senate supermajority.

— Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of broke

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The Tentative List, as the name suggests, comprises natural and cultural properties that a country considers to have the potential to be recognized as World Heritage.

— Karina Acharya, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Nov. 2026
Miami recognized its issues right away, and some of UM’s defenders wasted no time trying to correct them.

— Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2026

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