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decipher🔊

To decode or decrypt a code or cipher to plain text.

To read text that is almost illegible or obscure

💬 Quotations
With some difficulty they deciphered the scrawl, and instantly proceeded to carry its advice into execution.

To make sense of a complex situation.

💬 Quotations
Truly, we need human infirmity to teach us human nature, and that to Louis had been as a sealed book; he had only seen the coloured and gilded outside: too late he had to decipher the rough and gloomy page within.

To find a solution to a problem.

A decipherment; a decoding.