encrypt
verb (used with object)
to convert (a message or the like) into cipher or code.
encrypted
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past participleof encrypt.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof encrypt.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
encryptverb (used with object)to convert (a message or the like) into cipher or code. -
a word derived from
encrypt.
encryptverb (used with object)to convert (a message or the like) into cipher or code.
Example Sentences
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The paper says the demand is UK ministers' "latest bid to create a 'backdoor' to access encrypted customer data, a year after the Home Office agreed to drop a previous order".
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
In the parking lot, a legal observer helped her download the encrypted messaging app Signal and join her neighborhood rapid-response group.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
UBTech says the data processed by its U1 robots is encrypted and will not be used to train its AI models.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
In messages exchanged on an encrypted messaging application called SimpleX, Thomas and Roa communicated in a chatroom titled “Vanguard of the Old Republic,” according to the complaint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
But the Coast Guard’s radio network was still up and running, and it continued to intercept encrypted messages on the airwaves.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
