Hyphenation of epidemic

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

epi-dem-ic

Definitions of epidemic:

1.	A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease Many people are infected at the same time
2.	(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease Attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously An epidemic outbreak of influenza

Synonyms of epidemic:

adj	epidemic, pandemic, pestilent, pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey, epiphytotic, epizootic
noun	outbreak, eruption, irruption

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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.