Hyphenation of defoliate

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word defoliate? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

de-fo-li-ate

Definitions of defoliate:

1.	Strip the leaves or branches from Defoliate the trees with pesticides
2.	Deprived of leaves

Synonyms of defoliate:

adj	defoliated, leafless
verb	denude, bare, denudate, strip

Last hyphenations of this language

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