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decipher | American Dictionary

decipher
verb[ T ]
us/dɪˈsɑɪ·fər/
to discover the meaning of something hard to understand or which contains a hidden message:
I have a hard time deciphering my phone bill.

Examples of decipher

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It is just a fact that things written in a non-standard form of language are difficult to decipher, even if they are phonetically correct.
The symbolic messages encoded in the distribution of these items are difficult to decipher before their ongoing preservation and reconstruction have been completed.
The multiple messages conveyed by this story are subtle but not difficult to decipher.
Advertising appears to be the driving force behind treating sound qualities as symbolic and creating increasingly complicated scenarios for listeners to decipher.
A second example in which the effects of early exposure have been deciphered from naturalistic studies concerns maternal depression.
This also gives us cipher and decipher, taking us back to when codes were composed not with letters but with numbers.
Similar hypotheses regarding the foundations of successful ageing could be tested by studies that have deciphered the preferred value orientations of other, different, cultures.
Trying to decipher such values during debugging can be quite a challenge.
Although acoustic authenticity is preferred, graphic transcription is still difficult to decipher due to the lack of recognised norms and an often-excessive simplification of schemata.
The dream images do not remain unconscious because, once given symbolic articulation, they can be deciphered.
The question then was how to decipher the creative mathematical genius in the brain.
The detection node is dedicated to categorizing a stimulus as social and deciphering its basic ' social ' properties.
Examining their historical analogies is one approach to deciphering the circumstances given and transmitted from the past.
Even well substantiated cases from the more recent past are often hard to decipher.
Creating an audible release burst bestows a clear perceptual benefit by increasing the information that is available to the hearer for deciphering the signal.
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