decrypt
verb (used with object)
to decode or decipher.
decrypted
-
a word derived from
decrypt.
Example Sentences
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He knows where to start his search: Thanks to Nigeria — the 22nd century’s superpower — the historical internet has been decrypted and archived, including every personal email, text, photo and video.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2025
Once your traffic reaches the VPN server, it has reached the end of the tunnel and needs to be decrypted to forward your requests to the site or service you’re attempting to access.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025
In addition, they only decrypted the pieces of the model stored on the chip when necessary.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2024
By the end of the war, 63 million characters of high grade German messages had been decrypted by the 550 people working on the computers.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
They’re creating a catalog of decrypted messages on index cards.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
