decrypt

From de- +‎ -crypt, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, literally “hidden, concealed, private, secret”).

• (verb) IPA^(key): /dɪˈkɹɪpt/, /diːˈkɹɪpt/

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• IPA^(key): (noun) /ˈdiːkɹɪpt/

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• Hyphenation: de‧crypt
• Rhymes: -ɪpt, -iːkɹɪpt

decrypt (third-person singular simple present decrypts, present participle decrypting, simple past and past participle decrypted)

1. (transitive) To convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text.

   Synonyms: decipher, decode

   Antonyms: encipher, encode, encrypt

• decryption

decrypt (plural decrypts)

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.

• crypted