verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
decipher a code formal (= break one )
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His job involved deciphering the codes used by the enemy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
code
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Something that, once he had deciphered the code , would explain why Professor Max Flaschner was dead.
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He was the Einstein of the hound kingdom-able to decipher morse code .
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He had an inkling he was the only one who could decipher the code .
■ VERB
try
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The more you try to decipher the more confusing it becomes.
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He stared hard at pictures held out to him, trying to decipher their language.
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Its use of mutation and chance seems to occur within restraints; within an algorithm that we are still trying to decipher .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Illiterate people may be able to recognize and decipher signs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For Adorno, then, the meaning of musical works is immanent; our role is to decipher it.
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From then on the Chamber began following closely each development as the messages were in turn deciphered and translated.
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It means that it has fewer aural clues from which to decipher the sense.
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Much of our SleepTight tryout was spent deciphering directions.
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She couldn't decipher it in the pitch black.
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Those Hansard writers could decipher the Rosetta stone in their spare time.
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What such discoveries mean is that scientists are deciphering what seems to be a fundamental weight-control system in the body.
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Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?