Hyphenation of Populate

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word Populate? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

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Definitions of Populate:

1.	Inhabit or live in Be an inhabitant of People lived in Africa millions of years ago The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted This kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean Deer are populating the woods
2.	Fill with inhabitants Populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting

Synonyms of Populate:

verb	dwell, shack, reside, live, inhabit, people, domicile, domiciliate, be
verb	people, fill, fill up, make full

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.