decipher — Diccionario de inglés

Verbo

1. To convert a code or cipher to plain text.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Sinónimos

   decodedecryptuncode

   Antónimos

   encipherencodeencrypt

2. To read text that is almost illegible or obscure.

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   • transitivo

3. To make sense of a complex situation.

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   • transitivo

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   Truly, we need human infirmity to teach us human nature, and that to Louis had been as a sealed book; he had only seen the coloured and gilded outside: too late he had to decipher the rough and gloomy page within.

4. To find a solution to a problem.

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   • transitivo

   Sinónimos

   resolveunriddlework out

Sustantivo

1. A decipherment; a decoding.

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   I enclose a letter which I received yesterday evening from the Marques de Monsalud, containing the decipher of a letter from the King to the Comte d'Erlon. I wish that the Marques had sent the ciphered letter here […]

Verbo

1. convert code into ordinary language

   Sinónimos

   decodedecrypt

   Términos más generales

   rewrite

2. read with difficulty

   Sinónimos

   trace

   Términos más generales

   read

   Ejemplos

   Can you decipher this letter?

   The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs