Hyphenation of assign

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

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Definitions of assign:

1.	Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
2.	Give out We were assigned new uniforms
3.	Attribute or credit to We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare People impute great cleverness to cats
4.	Select something or someone for a specific purpose The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise
5.	Attribute or give She put too much emphasis on her the last statement He put all his efforts into this job The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story
6.	Make undue claims to having
7.	Transfer one's right to
8.	Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class

Synonyms of assign:

verb	delegate, designate, depute, appoint, charge
verb	allot, portion, distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out
verb	impute, ascribe, attribute, judge
verb	specify, set apart, choose, take, select, pick out
verb	put, use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ
verb	arrogate, claim, lay claim, arrogate
verb	transfer
verb	attribute, judge

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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.