Hyphenation of governs

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

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Definitions of governs:

1.	Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage Impose regulations We cannot regulate the way people dress This town likes to regulate
2.	Direct or strongly influence the behavior of His belief in God governs his conduct
3.	Exercise authority over As of nations Who is governing the country now?
4.	Require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood Most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German

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.