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decipher verb [ dɪˈsʌɪfə ]

• convert (a text written in code, or a coded signal) into normal language.
• "authorized government agencies can decipher encrypted telecommunications"
Similar: decode, decrypt, break, work out, solve, interpret, translate, construe, explain, make sense of, make head or tail of, get to the bottom of, unravel, find the key to, find the answer to, throw light on, crack, figure out, twig, suss, suss out,
Opposite: encode,
Origin: early 16th century: from de- (expressing reversal) + cipher1, on the pattern of French déchiffrer .


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