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
Downey’s explanation is played over the video Wayne has managed to decrypt after an afternoon playing Joe’s records and eating egg rolls.
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Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2025
Ideally only those with a secret key can decrypt it.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 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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Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2025
Ideally only those with a secret key can decrypt it.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 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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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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“Decrypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decrypt. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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