ENCRYPT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does encrypt mean? 

• ENCRYPT (verb)
  The verb ENCRYPT has 1 sense:

1. convert ordinary language into code

  Familiarity information: ENCRYPT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCRYPT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they encrypt    ... he / she / it encrypts   
Past simple: encrypted   
Past participle: encrypted   
-ing form: encrypting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Convert ordinary language into code

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

cipher; code; cypher; encipher; encrypt; inscribe; write in code

Context example:

We should encode the message for security reasons

Hypernyms (to "encrypt" is one way to...):

encode (convert information into code)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

encryption (the activity of converting data or information into code)

 Context examples 

Attackers can use this novel attack technique to read information that was previously assumed to be safely encrypted.

(Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol, Wikinews)