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Hyphen   /hˈaɪfən/   Listen
Hyphen

verb
(past & past part. hyphened; pres. part. hyphening)
1.
Divide or connect with a hyphen.  Synonym: hyphenate.





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"Hyphen" Quotes from Famous Books



... Kayeth caste; but he had not the advantage of a collegiate education, and he does not know much of the Congress. It is a movement for the educated young-man" -connecting adjective and noun in a sort of vocal hyphen. ...
— Under the Deodars • Rudyard Kipling
... and unexpected many of them were! Commas would become semicolons and periods give place to exclamation points, in the most reckless sort of fashion. The event which had been planned as a period to a day's doings would often instead become a hyphen, leading into and connecting us with conditions wholly ...
— In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852 • Gilbert L. Cole


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