Hyphenation of overtaking

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

over-tak-ing

Definitions of overtaking:

1.	Going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it She drove but well but her reckless passing of every car on the road frightened me

Synonyms of overtaking:

noun	passing, reordering

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.