decrypt

Etymology

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

verb

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

noun

  1. 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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