MEANING
To convert encrypted information back into an intelligible form.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- decrypt a signal
- decrypt a file
On the page
The console could receive the signal but could not decrypt it.
She decrypted the surviving file and found the final log.
Opposite meanings
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Word forms
- Base
- decrypt
- Past tense
- decrypted
- Past participle
- decrypted
- Present participle
- decrypting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- decrypt
- Present continuous
- am/is/are decrypting
- Present perfect
- have/has decrypted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been decrypting
- Past
- decrypted
- Past continuous
- was/were decrypting
- Past perfect
- had decrypted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been decrypting
- Future
- will decrypt
- Future continuous
- will be decrypting
- Future perfect
- will have decrypted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been decrypting
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: decrypt; decrypts; decrypted; decrypted; decrypting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: decrypts.
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