Usually means: Convert coded message to plain text.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. decipher: Merriam-Webster
  2. decipher: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decipher: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. decipher: Collins English Dictionary
  5. decipher: Vocabulary.com
  6. Decipher, decipher: Wordnik
  7. decipher: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. decipher: Wiktionary
  9. decipher: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. decipher: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. decipher: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Decipher, decipher: Dictionary.com
  13. decipher: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. decipher: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DECIPHER (software), DECIPHER, Decipher (After Forever album), Decipher (John Taylor album), Decipher (album), Decipher (disambiguation), Decipher (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Decipher: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. decipher: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. decipher: Rhymezone
  19. decipher: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. decipher: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. decipher: FreeDictionary.org
  22. decipher: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. decipher: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. decipher: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decipher: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. decipher: Hacking Lexicon
  2. decipher: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Decipher: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See decipherable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To convert a code or cipher to plain text.
verb:  (transitive) To read text that is almost illegible or obscure
verb:  (transitive) To make sense of a complex situation.
verb:  (transitive) To find a solution to a problem.
noun:  A decipherment; a decoding.

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