Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
decipher .
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- verb Alternative spelling of
decipher . - noun Alternative spelling of
decipher .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Who can decypher any man's motives?" said Cadfael resignedly.
His Disposition 2010
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Tayked meh a sekkund to decypher dat — but ai lieks it azwell!
Frank couldn’t believe his eyes. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Upstairs Guy is *not*, I repeat *not*, lying flat on the floor from the moment he gets in every evening, with his ear pressed to a glass pressed to the floorboards trying to decypher my keystrokes and keeping a log of which radio 7 shows I play and how often... =:o?
Is it the IRS? 2009
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Based on these discussions, it was unclear whether Skype was providing information to authorities about a backdoor or giving them a key to decypher communications.
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In the novel, as in many of Jules Verne's Extraordinary Voyages it's mainly about the journey and informing the (young) readers about as many geographic and scientific facts as can be stuffed between the covers (in this case from geology and paleontology, with a little cryptology at the start when they still had to decypher Arne Saknussem's coded message).
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) Michael May 2008
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#113 Brandi – if I can decypher your spelling correctly, you are irritated that less attention to the ME crisis than you would like is taking place.
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Do you think you can decypher Koo's sugar snap peas dish?
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Update 13.07.2007: and here are my notes for the talk… click on the photo to decypher!
Talk: Languages on the Internet at Google — Climb to the Stars 2007
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One thing I like about reading Melville is that I have to read carefully and decypher because he loads so much meaning and metaphor into it.
Good Melville passages from Billy Budd | Letter Never Sent 2007
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Having wakened a bit early and turned to my usual morning fodder of whatever is on C-Span, I was treated (?) to a re-broadcast of an appearance of Alan Greenspan before Congress Now, requiring a barely functional brain to decypher this man's message before fully awake is asking a lot, so I really concentrated in order to absorb the words of this guru of finance.
The Economy Gap 2005
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