Decipher

Quick meaning: Decipher is a verb meaning (transitive) To convert a code or cipher to plain text.

Meaning

(transitive) To convert a code or cipher to plain text.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To read text that is almost illegible or obscure.
2. (transitive) To make sense of a complex situation.
3. (transitive) To find a solution to a problem.
4. A decipherment; a decoding.

Example Sentences

Truly, we need human infirmity to teach us human nature, and that to Louis had been as a sealed book; he had only seen the coloured and gilded outside: too late he had to decipher the rough and gloomy page within.

I enclose a letter which I received yesterday evening from the Marques de Monsalud, containing the decipher of a letter from the King to the Comte d'Erlon. I wish that the Marques had sent the ciphered letter here […]

Word Forms

• deciphers
• deciphering
• deciphered
• decypher

Synonyms for decipher

Depending on context, synonyms include decode, decrypt, uncode, resolve, unriddle, absolve.

Antonyms for decipher

Common opposites include encipher, encode, encrypt.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include decode, decrypt, read, interpret, determine, explain.

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