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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



... activities hope to combat disloyalty, which the club members believe to exist among a number of the immigrants of certain nationalities. The main aim of the club, as its leaders state, is to assist in the Americanization of the Finnish women in America—to eliminate the hyphen, to ...
— A Stake in the Land • Peter Alexander Speek
... books in this series are consistently printed with a hyphen in "lieutenant-colonel", some chapters in this book were printed with and some without. I added the hyphen where missing in chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, ...
— The Scouts of Stonewall • Joseph A. Altsheler


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