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encrypt

Toencrypt is to encode something or to write or say something in a manner intended to obstruct its meaning and keep its contents secret. (verb)

An example ofencrypt is when you use a program to scramble an email and make it impossible for intruders or unauthorized individuals to read in order to protect the email's contents from becoming known.

See encrypt in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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