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In natural English speech, "decipher" appears in contexts such as: "an ongoing competition... well, an ongoing challenge to decipher hieroglyphic writing, which Champollion usually gets the credit for, and Hincks was very interested in trying to decipher hieroglyphic ahead of the French. And he ran into a sort of dead end at one stage, and he thought he'd have a look at cuneiform to see if it was helpful. And at the same time, he cracked it.". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

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an ongoing competition... well, an ongoing challenge to decipher hieroglyphic writing, which Champollion usually gets the credit for, and Hincks was very interested in trying to

decipher hieroglyphic ahead of the French.

And he ran into a sort of dead end at one stage, and he thought he'd have a look at cuneiform to see if it was helpful. And at the same time, he cracked it.

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verb

To convert a code or cipher to plain text.

Synonyms:decode decrypt uncode

verb

To read text that is almost illegible or obscure.

noun

A decipherment; a decoding.

“I enclose a letter which I received yesterday evening from the Marques de Monsalud, containing the decipher of a letter from the King to the Comte d'Erlon. I wish that the Marques had sent the ciphered letter here […]”

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