decipher

Speech parts

1. decipher - Noun

2. decipher - Verb

Meaning

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

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.

To stamp; to detect; to discover.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

trace decode decrypt read twig parsee follow figure break reading understand explain solve render resolve
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Antonyms

cook ravel cypher constitution scrabble bevel
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Hypernyms

read rewrite

Phrases with the word

decipher a secret code decipher a coded message decipher a cryptogram decipher a code

Derivatives

deciphered deciphering

Anagrams

ciphered

Examples

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm. Paul Ricœur

People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it. Paulo Coelho

No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you? Ken Kesey

Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one... Iannis Xenakis

We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world. Georges Bataille

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. Chuck Palahniuk

Close letter words and terms

decine decinine decinormal decipher a code decipher a coded message decipher a cryptogram