Synonyms:
decipher, trace
Meaning: read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"
Synonyms:
decode, decrypt, decipher
Meaning: convert code into ordinary language
Usage examples
The most sagacious, the calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty translations on the public place.
I have had a curious packet confided to me, containing an immense amount of manuscript, in an inconceivably small space; tales, dramas, poems, romances, written principally by Charlotte, in a hand which it is almost impossible to decipher without the aid of a magnifying glass.