Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
verb
To reverse the process of scrambling, decrypt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To restore to order; to rectify.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
make intelligible
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: scramble
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
verb
become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: unravel, unknot, untangle, unpick
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: undo
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English scramble English unscramble From un- + scramble.
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
