decipher
IPA: dɪsˈaɪfɝ
noun
- A decipherment; a decoding.
verb
- (transitive) To decode or decrypt a code or cipher to plain text.
- (transitive) To read text that is almost illegible or obscure
- (transitive) To make sense of a complex situation.
- (transitive) To find a solution to a problem.
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Examples of "decipher" in Sentences
- Pointing out that you wrote out sentences that are literally impossible to decipher is not an ad hominem.
- What I've been trying to decipher is whether John Donne is actually buried in St. Paul's Cathedral or not, in London.
- The video illustrates its many features, some of which I was able to decipher from the German with an educated guess.
- I guess my comment, that Im now myself trying to decipher, is that only a genius could fix our problems at this time
- While our language columnist anxiously awaits her copy, she tries to decipher the Russian words for "countrymen" and "townsmen" into something usable.
- He certainly heard the question, because he repeated it back to Steve Murphy aloud, probably in the hopes that saying it to himself would help him decipher the code words masquerading as basic eighth grade English.
- Lady Mar crushed the registered wish in her hand; and though she was never able to decipher a word more of Bruce's numerous letters (many of which, could she have read them, contained complaints of that silence she had so cruelly occasioned), she took and destroyed them all.
- National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spokesman Ken Spain goes one better, "It's hard to decipher which is the most fraudulent notion -- the fact that ACORN is a law-abiding entity worthy of a $4.2 billion bailout or that $1.1 trillion in out-of-control government spending is going to defy the experts and have some sort of immediate effect on the economy."
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