DECRYPT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does decrypt mean? 

• DECRYPT (verb)
  The verb DECRYPT has 1 sense:

1. convert code into ordinary language

  Familiarity information: DECRYPT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECRYPT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they decrypt    ... he / she / it decrypts   
Past simple: decrypted   
Past participle: decrypted   
-ing form: decrypting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Convert code into ordinary language

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

decipher; decode; decrypt

Hypernyms (to "decrypt" is one way to...):

rewrite (write differently; alter the writing of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

decryption (the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text)

 Context examples 

In general, any data or information that the victim transmits can be decrypted.

(Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol, Wikinews)