decrypt
English
Pronunciation
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Verb
decrypt (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.
- Antonym: encrypt
Related terms
Translations
to convert back to plain text
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Noun
decrypt (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.