Break and Encode

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Break verb - To change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language.

Usage example: Alan Turing and the Bletchley Park mathematicians broke the Enigma code being used by the Nazis

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Encode is an antonym for break.

Nearby Words: breach, breakdown, breaking, breakup, breakable

Encode verb - Convert information into code.

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Break is an antonym for encode.

Nearby Words: encoded, encoding, encoder

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