Usually means: Convert coded message to plain text.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word decipher:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. decipher: Merriam-Webster.com
  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: Free Dictionary
  22. decipher: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. decipher: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. decipher: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

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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.

Similar:
decode, decypher, uncipher, decrypt, cipher, undecipher, descramble, redecipher, excuss, decodify, more...

Opposite:
encrypt, encipher

Phrases:
difficult to decipher, opposite of decipher, decipher a code, to try and decipher, words that are difficult to decipher, more...

Adjectives:
last, unwearied, contemporary, first, scarce, more, profound, present


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Similar:
decode, decypher, uncipher, decrypt, cipher, undecipher, descramble, redecipher, excuss, decodify, more...

Opposite:
encrypt, encipher

Phrases:
difficult to decipher, opposite of decipher, decipher a code, to try and decipher, words that are difficult to decipher, make difficult to decipher, to decipher, decipher a mystery, decipher up, more...

Adjectives:
last, unwearied, contemporary, first, scarce, more, profound, present



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