DECIPHERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deciphered mean? 

• DECIPHERED (adjective)
  The adjective DECIPHERED has 1 sense:

1. converted from cryptic to intelligible language

  Familiarity information: DECIPHERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECIPHERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Converted from cryptic to intelligible language

Antonym:

undeciphered (not deciphered)

 Context examples 

The left hand stumbled slowly and painfully across the paper, and it was with extreme difficulty that we deciphered the scrawl.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And when one considers the variety of hands, and of bad hands too, that are to be deciphered, it increases the wonder.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

While I deciphered it, Steerforth continued to eat and drink.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Of these hairs (as I had always a mechanical genius) I likewise made a neat little purse, about five feet long, with her majesty’s name deciphered in gold letters, which I gave to Glumdalclitch, by the queen’s consent.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was a dull gray landscape, and as I gradually deciphered the details of it I realized that it represented a long and enormously high line of cliffs exactly like an immense cataract seen in the distance, with a sloping, tree-clad plain in the foreground.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)