Hyphenation of starving

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

starv-ing

Definitions of starving:

1.	The act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine The besiegers used starvation to induce surrender They were charged with the starvation of children in their care
2.	Suffering from lack of food

Synonyms of starving:

adj	starved, malnourished
noun	starvation, privation, deprivation

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.