decipher

[De*ci·pher]

Decipher means translate from code, or more generally, figure out. If you can’t decipher your teacher's writing, it means you can't read it. You might feel like you're being asked to decipher a code.

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To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.

Verb
read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"

Verb
convert code into ordinary language


v. t.
To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.

v. t.
To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold.

v. t.
To stamp; to detect; to discover.


Decipher

De*ci"pher , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deciphered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Deciphering.] [Pref. de- + cipher. Formed in imitation of F. d'82chiffrer. See Cipher.] 1. To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters. 2. To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold. 3. To stamp; to detect; to discover. [R.]
You are both deciphered, . . . For villains.

To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.

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Usage Examples

I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.

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