Another word for decipher
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Verb
To make understandable
- To remove (a tumor or eye, for example) whole from an enveloping cover or sac.
- To remove the nucleus of.
- To explain; elucidate.
- To form (a word) from its component letters.
- To explain in a simple and understandable manner.
- To explain the meaning of:
- To understand the significance of; construe:
- To present or conceptualize the meaning of by means of art or criticism:
- To explain in detail; elucidate:
- To make known or set forth; present:
- To make a detailed statement:
- To make clear the meaning of; explain.
- To make plain or comprehensible.
- To define; expound:
- To offer reasons for or a cause of; justify:
- To understand or explain the meaning of (something), especially in a particular way; interpret:
- To analyze the structure of (a clause or sentence).
- To use syntactically:
Idioms:See also:To find a solution for
- (idiomatic) To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
- (idiomatic) To calculate.
- To undo or ravel the entangled, knitted, or woven threads of:
- To undo or separate (entangled, knitted, or woven threads).
- To clarify the elements of (something mysterious or baffling); solve:
- To find an answer to, explanation for, or way of dealing with (a problem, for example).
- To solve an equation:
- To make a firm decision about:
- To decide or express by formal vote:
- To cause (a person) to reach a decision:
- To make plain or comprehensible.
- To define; expound:
- To offer reasons for or a cause of; justify:
Idioms:To find the key to (a code, for example)
- To decipher.
- To decode.
- A deciphered or decoded message.
- To break without complete separation of parts:
- To break or snap apart:
- To make a sharp snapping sound:
- To cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently; smash.
- To divide into pieces, as by bending or cutting:
- To separate into components or parts:
See also:
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Another word for decipher
Verb
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- To break without complete separation of parts:
- To break or snap apart:
- To make a sharp snapping sound:
- (idiomatic) To understand even minimally.
- To determine to be good or bad.
- (idiomatic) To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
- (idiomatic) To calculate.
- To decipher.
- To decode.
- A deciphered or decoded message.
- To straighten out or disentangle (a jumble or tangle); resolve.
- To restore (a scrambled message) to intelligible form.
- To make plain or comprehensible.
- To define; expound:
- To offer reasons for or a cause of; justify:
- To understand or explain the meaning of (something), especially in a particular way; interpret:
- To analyze the structure of (a clause or sentence).
- To use syntactically:
- To submit or present, as for consideration, approval, or payment:
- To give or make available; provide:
- To give in return or by obligation:
- To explain in detail; elucidate:
- To make known or set forth; present:
- To make a detailed statement:
- To extricate from entanglement or involvement; free.
- To clear up or resolve (a plot, for example); unravel.
- To become free of entanglement.
- To find an answer to, explanation for, or way of dealing with (a problem, for example).
- To solve an equation:
- To make clear or plain, especially by explanation; clarify.
- To explain or clarify something:
- To open and spread out (something folded); extend.
- To remove the coverings from; disclose to view:
- To reveal gradually by written or spoken explanation; make known:
- To make known (something concealed or unknown):
- To cause to be seen; show:
- To make known by supernatural or divine means:
- To undo or ravel the entangled, knitted, or woven threads of:
- To undo or separate (entangled, knitted, or woven threads).
- To clarify the elements of (something mysterious or baffling); solve:
- To name or write in order the letters constituting (a word).
- To constitute the letters of (a word):
- To add up to; signify:
- To render in another language:
- To express in different, often simpler words:
- To change from one form, function, or state to another; convert or transform:
- To examine and grasp the meaning of (written or printed characters, words, or sentences).
- To utter or render aloud (written or printed material):
- To have the ability to examine and grasp the meaning of (written or printed material in a given language or notation):
- To explain the meaning of:
- To understand the significance of; construe:
- To present or conceptualize the meaning of by means of art or criticism:
- To convert from code into plaintext.
- To convert from a scrambled electronic signal into an interpretable one.
- To extract the underlying meaning from:
Antonyms:
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