Hyphenation of assail

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

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Definitions of assail:

1.	Attack someone physically or emotionally The mugger assaulted the woman Nightmares assailed him regularly
2.	Launch an attack or assault on Begin hostilities or start warfare with Hitler attacked Poland on September 1
3.	1939 and started World War II Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week
4.	Attack in speech or writing The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker

Synonyms of assail:

verb	assault, set on, attack
verb	attack, fight, struggle
verb	attack, round, lash out, snipe, assault, knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart

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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.