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hyphenating

hyphenating is the present participle and gerund of hyphenate.

Meaning of hyphenate

Verb

hyphenate (third-person singular simple present hyphenates, present participle hyphenating, simple past and past participle hyphenated)

  1. (transitive) to break a word at the end of a line according to the hyphenation rules by adding a hyphen on the end of the line.
  2. (transitive) to join words or syllables with a hyphen.
    • you have to hyphenate his surname as it's double-barrelled

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Questions about hyphenating

What is hyphenating the present participle and gerund of?
Hyphenating is the present participle and gerund of hyphenate.

Words near hyphenating in the dictionary

  1. hyphenate
  2. hyphenated
  3. hyphenated American
  4. hyphenated Americans
  5. hyphenates
  6. hyphenating
  7. hyphenation
  8. hyphenations
  9. hyphenator
  10. hyphenators
  11. hyphened

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hyphenating (page history and authors); hyphenate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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