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decrypt
To convert secretly coded data (encrypted data) back into its original form. Contrast with encrypt. See plaintext and cryptography.
decrypt [dē′kript]
(electronics)
To convert a crypotogram or series of electronic pulses into plain text by electronic means.
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While working at Bletchley Park she was stationed in a small, cramped hut with about twenty other women, where she sat in front of a machine and decrypted the German code coming in.
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