Hyphenation of contaminating

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word contaminating? This word can be hyphenated and contains 7 syllables as shown below.

con-t-a-m-i-nat-ing

Definitions of contaminating:

1.	Spreading pollution or contamination Especially radioactive contamination The air near the foundry was always dirty A dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout
2.	That infects or taints

Synonyms of contaminating:

adj	dirty
adj	corrupting, infectious

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

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