decrypt
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of decrypt
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (transitive)To convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text.
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verb
- (transitive)To convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text.
noun
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A decoded communication.
“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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Etymology
From de- + -crypt, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, literally “hidden, concealed, private, secret”).
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