Break and Garble

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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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Garble is an antonym for break.

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

Garble verb - To change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of.

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Break is an antonym for garble.

Nearby Word: garbling

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