Definition of Decipher

Decipher

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

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.

To stamp; to detect; to discover.

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Decipher Quotations

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
Paul Ricoeur

I really can't blame anyone but myself, because I didn't have to deliver the album. But when you get caught up in the gas, and you're young, and there's so much helium going on around you, you can't decipher the real end.
Pras Michel

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.
John M. Ford

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Decipher Translations

decipher in Dutch is ontcijferen, ontraadselen
decipher in Norwegian is omsette
decipher in Spanish is descifrar
decipher in Swedish is dechiffrera

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