Hyphenation of overlying

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

over-ly-ing

Definitions of overlying:

1.	Lie upon Lie on top of The granite overlies the older rocks
2.	Kill by lying on The sow overlay her piglets
3.	Placed on or over something else An overlying image

Synonyms of overlying:

adj	superimposed, superjacent

Last hyphenations of this language

picric three-fathom acoustico- nosebands quittance mid-heaven nonpartisanism quadricostate driftages terned hystero- moraller Angles afterwork impoliticness critico-poetical mincingness skeeter aluminum

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.