hyphenate

POS

Verb (transitive)

HYPHEN

hy=phen=ate

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb hyphenate has 1 sense

hyphenate(v = verb.creation) hyphen - divide or connect with a hyphen; "hyphenate these words and names"

is one way to spell, write

Derived forms noun hyphen₁, noun hyphenation₂, noun hyphenation₁

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

hyphenate, v.tr. = HYPHEN v.

Derivative

hyphenation n.

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THESAURUS

hyphenate

analyze, bracket, citizen, citizen by adoption, conjugate, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, decline, hyphenated American, immigrant, inflect, mark, metic, national, naturalized citizen, nonnative citizen, parenthesize, parse, point, punctuate, subject

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