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Meaning decipher meaning

What does decipher mean?
Definitions in simple English

decipher Verb

— If you decipher something, you decode or decrypt a code or cipher into a plain text. The signals helped us to decipher what the allies meant. — If you are able to decipher something, you can read and understand text that is almost illegible. The teacher had a hard time deciphering her student's handwriting. — If you decipher something, you find a solution to a problem.

decipher

— verb (= trace) read with difficulty Can you decipher this letter? The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs — verb (= decode) convert code into ordinary language

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decipher English » English

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Examples decipher examples

How do I use decipher in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Can you decipher the message?
His handwriting is impossible to decipher.

Movie subtitles

Today I went up to the university library and looked into some ancient texts which no scholar has been able to decipher.
That's why we couldn't decipher your message till it was too late.
We couldn't decipher the ashes.
I might be able to decipher it.
Yes, but I am afraid we will never be able to decipher it.
Look, I was just trying to decipher this inscription.
Can you decipher it?
I know it is madness to keep this journal, but it gives me a strange thrill to do so and only a loving wife could decipher my microscopic script.
If you can't decipher any of it, speak up.
I tried in vain to decipher his signature.
He needs me to decipher the inscription.
Decipher it, and call me the moment you have.
Who else is going to decipher it?
Can you decipher that, Claire?
I saw immediately that he wouldn't send us a message so simple to decipher.
Professor Moriarity also has the code and we must allow for his ability to decipher it.
But please put your stuff in a safe place, especially the decipher-codes!
That is why I want to decipher everything on my own.
I will explain our transmitter to you and you can listen to our news and decipher them. Agreed, Mr. Consul!
It's the third time you've tried to decipher it.
Prof. Sikarna is still working on the message from Venus. He and Chen Yu want to decipher the magnetic cylinder.
The white house feels if we can decipher this book we can find out what they're up to.
Nobody needs to decipher much of anything anymore because there aren't any more codes simply because there aren't any more secret messages.
If you can't decipher any of this, speak up.
I spent my life trying to decipher it.
There isn't time, doctor, I must decipher those obelisk symbols.
We've gotta decipher them.
Can you decipher what it says?
Well, if it's a message, it shouldn't be difficult to decipher.
There are a couple of references here that need more than a dictionary to decipher.
Perhaps those who will decipher the first interstellar communications are alive at this moment, somewhere on the planet Earth.
Then, new worlds are discovered as we decipher the mysteries of the cosmos.
We've got some information, but we can't decipher it.
I've been picking this up for a while now, but I can't seem to decipher it.
I leafed through it, reverent and helpless. I couldn't decipher a single word. not even the title.
In the films, I have always tried to uncover this content, to listen to the objects and decipher their narration.
Much of what I've been able to decipher supports the contention of the one-armed man.

News and current affairs

I will leave it to Shakespeare scholars to decipher what he had in mind.
We all see how others feel and react, but without the minimal historical and cultural tools necessary to decipher those reactions.
The term was never defined in any formal setting, but the concept was not difficult to decipher.
French ways in foreign policy are often murky and difficult to decipher, unless it is crystal clear where France regards its interests to lie.
All of that was grammar-school stuff compared to efforts to decipher the regime in North Korea, where the truth is far more opaque.
Finally, we often figure out things on the fly when they are in front of us, but then falsely assume that we came to the object with a full understanding in our heads rather than using and manipulating the object to decipher its mechanism.

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