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Hyphenate Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -ate

Hyphenate has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Noun
1

A person with multiple duties or abilities, such as "writer-director", "actor-model", or "singer-songwriter".

Verb
1

divide or connect with a hyphen

"hyphenate these words and names"

2

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.

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