encrypt
verb/ɪnˈkrɪpt/
/ɪnˈkrɪpt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they encrypt | /ɪnˈkrɪpt/ /ɪnˈkrɪpt/ |
| he / she / it encrypts | /ɪnˈkrɪpts/ /ɪnˈkrɪpts/ |
| past simple encrypted | /ɪnˈkrɪptɪd/ /ɪnˈkrɪptɪd/ |
| past participle encrypted | /ɪnˈkrɪptɪd/ /ɪnˈkrɪptɪd/ |
| -ing form encrypting | /ɪnˈkrɪptɪŋ/ /ɪnˈkrɪptɪŋ/ |
- encrypt something to put information into a special code, especially in order to prevent people from looking at it without authority
- All data is encrypted before it is sent.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryEncrypt is used with these nouns as the object:- file
- message
- traffic
- …
Word Origin1950s (originally US): from en- ‘in’ + Greek kruptos ‘hidden’.Definitions on the go
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