hyphen

Words with a similar base: hyphen, hyphenate

'hyphen'

[hyphen.n.01] as in: 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

'hyphen'

[hyphenate.v.01] as in: divide or connect with a hyphen

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