decipher
verb (used with object)
to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.).
decipherment
-
a word derived from
decipher.
Example Sentences
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Scholars have compiled complete, updated databases of all known inscribed artefacts - crucial for decipherment.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025
Champollion’s birthplace is celebrating the bicentennial of the decipherment with a program of events concluding in October.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022
Sebald’s attempt at decipherment must become, in part, ours: we are trying to puzzle this material out, just as Sebald, the fanatical author-researcher, is.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2017
A valuable key to the decipherment of hieroglyphs is the inscriptions on the Rosetta Stone.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 28, 2015
A magazine had asked me to cover the intellectual ferment caused by the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphics.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
