Hyphenation of defacement

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word defacement? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

de-face-ment

Definitions of defacement:

1.	The act of damaging the appearance or surface of something The defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion He objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape

Synonyms of defacement:

noun	disfigurement, disfiguration, damage, harm, hurt, scathe

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.