decrypt

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decrypt
verb

de‧crypt

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[transitive]

TD to change a message or information on a computer back into a form that can be read, when someone has sent it to you in a type of computer code [↪ encrypt]:

Only certain employees will be able to decrypt sensitive documents.

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noun [uncountable]

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