decipher
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /dɪˈsaɪfə(ɹ)/
decipher (deciphers, present participle deciphering; past and past participle deciphered)
- (transitive) To decode or decrypt a code or cipher to plain text.
- (transitive) To read text that is almost illegible or obscure.
- (transitive) To find a solution to a problem.
- French: déchiffrer
- German: dechiffrieren, entschlüsseln
- Portuguese: decifrar
- Russian: расшифро́вывать
- Spanish: descifrar, decodificar
- German: entziffern
- Spanish: descifrar, interpretar
- German: entschlüsseln
- Portuguese: decifrar, resolver
- Spanish: resolver, descifrar
decipher (plural deciphers)
- A decipherment; a decoding.
- 1837, Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, John Gurwood, The Dispatches of Field Marshall the Duke of Wellington, K.G.
- 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 […]
- 1837, Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, John Gurwood, The Dispatches of Field Marshall the Duke of Wellington, K.G.
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