DECIPHER

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.

2.
v.

To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold.

3.
v.

To stamp; to detect; to discover. [R.] You are both deciphered, . . . For villains. Shak.

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