Read full poem →Of whom there now remains,
For sages to decipher and priests to garble,
Only and for a little while her letters wedged in marble,
Dictionary Entry
To decode or figure out something that is difficult to understand, like a secret message or handwriting.
In a Sentence
“The detective struggled to decipher the coded message left at the crime scene.”
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Origin
From Middle French 'dechiffrer', from Italian 'decifrare', from 'cifra' (cipher).
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “decipher”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.