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HYPHENATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they hyphenate ... he / she / it hyphenates
Past simple: hyphenated
Past participle: hyphenated
-ing form: hyphenating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Divide or connect with a hyphen
Example:
hyphenate these words and names
Synonyms:
hyphen; hyphenate
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "hyphenate" is one way to...):
spell; write (write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
hyphen (a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text)
hyphenation (connecting syllables and words by hyphens)
hyphenation (division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page)
