Hyphenation of malinger

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

ma-linger

Definitions of malinger:

1.	Avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill

Synonyms of malinger:

verb	skulk, fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick

Last hyphenations of this language

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