Hyphenation of captives

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

cap-tives

Definitions of captives:

1.	A person who is confined Especially a prisoner of war
2.	An animal that is confined
3.	A person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion
4.	Being in captivity
5.	Giving or marked by complete attention to That engrossed look or rapt delight Then wrapped in dreams So intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred- Walter de la Mare Rapt with wonder Wrapped in thought

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.