Hyphenation of Slaughter

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word Slaughter? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

Slaugh-ter

Definitions of Slaughter:

1.	The killing of animals (as for food)
2.	A sound defeat
3.	The savage and excessive killing of many people
4.	Kill (animals) usually for food consumption They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter
5.	Kill a large number of people indiscriminately The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda

Synonyms of Slaughter:

noun	killing, kill, putting to death
noun	thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, trouncing, whipping, defeat, licking
noun	massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery, murder, slaying, execution
verb	butcher, kill
verb	massacre, mow down, kill

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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.