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DECIPHERED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does deciphered mean?
• DECIPHERED (adjective)
The adjective DECIPHERED has 1 sense:
1. converted from cryptic to intelligible language
Familiarity information: DECIPHERED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Converted from cryptic to intelligible language
Antonym:
undeciphered (not deciphered)
Context examples
The left hand stumbled slowly and painfully across the paper, and it was with extreme difficulty that we deciphered the scrawl.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
And when one considers the variety of hands, and of bad hands too, that are to be deciphered, it increases the wonder.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
While I deciphered it, Steerforth continued to eat and drink.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Of these hairs (as I had always a mechanical genius) I likewise made a neat little purse, about five feet long, with her majesty’s name deciphered in gold letters, which I gave to Glumdalclitch, by the queen’s consent.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It was a dull gray landscape, and as I gradually deciphered the details of it I realized that it represented a long and enormously high line of cliffs exactly like an immense cataract seen in the distance, with a sloping, tree-clad plain in the foreground.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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