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en•crypt
(en kript′),USA pronunciation v.t.
en•cryp′tion, en′cryp•ta′tion, n.
- Cryptographyto encipher or encode.
- en-1 + -crypt (abstracted from cryptic, cryptography, etc.), modeled on encode 1940–45