Hyphenation of internment

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

in-tern-ment

Definitions of internment:

1.	Confinement during wartime
2.	The act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
3.	Placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law

Synonyms of internment:

noun	captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement
noun	imprisonment, confinement
noun	impoundment, impounding, poundage, seizure

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.