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SYLLABICATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they syllabicate ... he / she / it syllabicates
Past simple: syllabicated
Past participle: syllabicated
-ing form: syllabicating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Divide into syllables
Example:
syllabify the words
Synonyms:
syllabicate; syllabify; syllabise; syllabize
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "syllabicate" is one way to...):
section; segment (divide into segments)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
syllabication (forming or dividing words into syllables)
syllable (a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme)
