Hyphenation of pest

Are you trying to hyphenate pest? Unfortunately it cannot be hyphenated because it only contains one syllable.

pest

Definitions of pest:

1.	A serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
2.	Any epidemic disease with a high death rate
3.	A persistently annoying person
4.	Any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc. He sprayed the garden to get rid of pests Many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides

Synonyms of pest:

noun	blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadfly, tormentor, tormenter, persecutor

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.