Hyphenation of costive

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

cos-tive

Definitions of costive:

1.	Retarding evacuation of feces Binding Constipating

Synonyms of costive:

adj	costive, binding, constipating

Last hyphenations of this language

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