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
Various e-mails sent by Fassih from Dublin were later decrypted by the Dutch police.
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Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Your associate applies the key again to decrypt the message.
—PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
Merchants typically decrypt the token to extract a Digital Account Number (DAN), a masked version of the original card.
—Andrew Riabchuk, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Passepartout is also a wink at a long-running Italian television series in the early 2000s hosted by art historian Philippe Daverio, which made discovering and decrypting art very entertaining.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
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Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Your associate applies the key again to decrypt the message.
—PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
Merchants typically decrypt the token to extract a Digital Account Number (DAN), a masked version of the original card.
—Andrew Riabchuk, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Passepartout is also a wink at a long-running Italian television series in the early 2000s hosted by art historian Philippe Daverio, which made discovering and decrypting art very entertaining.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decrypt
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But this can be tricky to decipher without a medical degree.—
Korin Miller,
Flow Space,
21 Jan. 2026
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So, the thinking went, every costume, prop, and line reading is there for a reason, infinite symbolism scattered across the frame for anyone determined enough to decipher it.—
Lane Brown,
Vulture,
17 Dec. 2025
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