decrypt
English
editEtymology
editFrom de- + -crypt, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, literally “hidden, concealed, private, secret”).
Pronunciation
edit- (verb) IPA(key): /dɪˈkɹɪpt/, /diːˈkɹɪpt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (noun) IPA(key): /ˈdiːkɹɪpt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: de‧crypt
- Rhymes: -ɪpt, -iːkɹɪpt
Verb
editdecrypt (third-person singular simple present decrypts, present participle decrypting, simple past and past participle decrypted)
- (transitive) To convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text.
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editto convert back to plain text
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Noun
editdecrypt (plural decrypts)
- A decoded communication.
- 1979, Francis Harry Hinsley, British Intelligence in the Second World War, page 182:
- The decrypts were being obtained from the traffic of 78 German stations by the end of 1941, and of 147 stations by the end of 1942.
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