decrypt
Syllables: de·crypt/dɪˈkɹɪpt/
decrypt verb: to convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text.
Verb
decrypt (third-person singular simple present decrypts, present participle decrypting, simple past and past participle decrypted)
Noun
IPA/ˈdiːkɹɪpt/
decrypt (plural decrypts)
- A decoded communication.
- The decrypts were being obtained from the traffic of 78 German stations by the end of 1941, and of 147 stations by the end of 1942.1979, Francis Harry Hinsley, British Intelligence in the Second World War, page 182
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Forms of decrypt
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | decrypts |
| present participle | decrypting |
| past participle | decrypted |
| past | decrypted |
| Noun | |
| plural | decrypts |
Origin of decrypt
From de- + -crypt, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, literally “hidden, concealed, private, secret”).
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Questions about decrypt
- What does decrypt mean?
- Decrypt means to convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text.
- What part of speech is decrypt?
- Decrypt can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce decrypt?
- Decrypt is pronounced /dɪˈkɹɪpt/.
- What is the past tense of decrypt?
- The past tense of decrypt is decrypted.
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