Hyphenation of discourages

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

dis-cour-ages

Definitions of discourages:

1.	Try to prevent Show opposition to We should discourage this practice among our youth
2.	Deprive of courage or hope Take away hope from Cause to feel discouraged
3.	Admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior I warned him not to go too far I warn you against false assumptions She warned him to be quiet

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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.