1. to connect words or parts of words with a hyphen

Examples

• You should hyphenate compound adjectives like ‘well-known’ when they come before a noun.
• The editor decided to hyphenate the word at the end of the line.
• Many style guides recommend hyphenating numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine.
• The software automatically hyphenates long words to improve text formatting.
• She learned to hyphenate compound words correctly in her writing class.
• The publisher’s guidelines specify when to hyphenate prefixes like ‘pre-‘ and ‘anti-‘.