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# deciphered

«deciphered» in Mova's school dictionary: **Worked out the meaning of a secret code and turned it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb, past form of decipher (decipher, deciphers, deciphered, deciphering); adjective (a deciphered message)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Worked out the meaning of a secret code and turned it into plain words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deciphered/#m1)

2) Managed to read writing that is very hard to read, like messy handwriting or an old script. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deciphered/#m2)

3) Understood something puzzling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deciphered/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history, people deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs with help from the Rosetta Stone, and code-breakers deciphered secret wartime messages. In maths and puzzles, deciphering a code means finding the rule, such as each letter moved three places. In stories it shows a mystery being solved. Phrases: «deciphered the code», «could hardly be deciphered».

### examples

- The detectives deciphered the secret message. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deciphered/#x1)
- Champollion deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs in 1822. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deciphered/#x2)
- I finally deciphered my brother's messy handwriting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deciphered/#x3)
- We deciphered the code by shifting each letter back by one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deciphered/#x4)
- The old map had faded and could barely be deciphered. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deciphered/#x5)
- She deciphered the meaning of his strange look. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deciphered/#x6)
- Code-breakers deciphered enemy messages during the war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deciphered/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: decipher, deciphered. Opposite: encipher or encode. Very close to «decode»; «decipher» is also used for hard handwriting. Spelled with «ph», which sounds like «f».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «deciphered» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deciphered/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.