MEANING
To transform information into a coded form that requires an appropriate key or method to recover it.
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Words that belong together
- encrypt a message
- encrypted channel
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They encrypted the coordinates before transmitting them.
The archive encrypted each file with a separate key.
Opposite meanings
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Word forms
- Base
- encrypt
- Past tense
- encrypted
- Past participle
- encrypted
- Present participle
- encrypting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- encrypt
- Present continuous
- am/is/are encrypting
- Present perfect
- have/has encrypted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been encrypting
- Past
- encrypted
- Past continuous
- was/were encrypting
- Past perfect
- had encrypted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been encrypting
- Future
- will encrypt
- Future continuous
- will be encrypting
- Future perfect
- will have encrypted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been encrypting
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: encrypt; encrypts; encrypted; encrypted; encrypting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: encrypts.
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