as in to decipher
to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language
decrypting the Germans' code was one of the Allies' greatest triumphs
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Recent Examples of decrypt
There is still no evidence that attackers decrypted customer passwords.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Dec. 2025
To prevent two of them from colluding to cook the results, each trustee holds a third of the cryptographic key material needed to decrypt results.
—ArsTechnica, 22 Nov. 2025
Various e-mails sent by Fassih from Dublin were later decrypted by the Dutch police.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Your associate applies the key again to decrypt the message.
—PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Dec. 2025
To prevent two of them from colluding to cook the results, each trustee holds a third of the cryptographic key material needed to decrypt results.
—ArsTechnica, 22 Nov. 2025
Various e-mails sent by Fassih from Dublin were later decrypted by the Dutch police.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Your associate applies the key again to decrypt the message.
—PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
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No one had written them down, and the band had to listen to the few tapes that existed and try to decipher his words.—
Mark Richardson,
Pitchfork,
28 Feb. 2026
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Looking through the official tiebreaker rules, the American-Statesman has attempted to decipher the reasoning behind Texas State's seeding.—
Caleb Yum,
Austin American Statesman,
28 Feb. 2026
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“Decrypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decrypt. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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