decode
verb (used with object)
to translate (data or a message) from a code into the original language or form.
were decoding
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past progressiveof decode.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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The incoming data were so slow that we were decoding them on the fly by eye.
From Time Magazine Archive
