Hyphenation of battles

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

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Definitions of battles:

1.	A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga He lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement
2.	An energetic attempt to achieve something Getting through the crowd was a real struggle He fought a battle for recognition
3.	An open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph--Thomas Paine Police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs
4.	Battle or contend against in or as if in a battle The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq We must combat the prejudices against other races They battled over the budget

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.