1. divided into syllables
Usage: linguistics

1. past tense and past participle of syllabify; divided a word into syllables
Usage: linguistics

Examples

• The teacher showed us how the word ‘elephant’ is syllabified as ‘el-e-phant’.
• Students practiced reading syllabified words to improve their pronunciation.
• The dictionary entry included the syllabified form of each headword.
• She syllabified the difficult word to help her students understand it better.
• The phonics program used syllabified text for beginning readers.
• After the word was syllabified, it became easier to spell correctly.