Decrypt

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /dɪˈkɹɪpt/, /diːˈkɹɪpt/

Full definition of decrypt

Verb

1. To convert an encrypted or coded text or message into plain text.

Antonyms

• encrypt

Related terms

• decipher

Noun

1. A decoded communication.
• 1979, Francis Harry Hinsley, British Intelligence in the Second World War (page 182)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.