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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
syllabify .
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Examples
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The civilization of the Mesopotamian plain is not only the oldest but the first where man settled in great city communities, under an orderly government, with a developed religion, practicing agriculture, erecting dwellings and using a syllabified writing.
Marvels of Modern Science Paul Severing
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The ambitious Turner would spell the words as they were syllabified, and the man could pronounce them accurately.
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He syllabified the last word, but didn't say how long the Belarusian application would be examined and whether the answer would be positive if Minsk recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Хартия'97 :: Новости из Беларуси - Белорусские новости - Республика Беларусь - Минск 2009
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DICTIONAR. BUYING GUIDE, A Consumer Guide to General English-Language Wordbooks in Print, by Kenneth F. Kister, R.R. Bowker Company, 1977, xx + 358 pp. Unfortunately for the publisher, the designer of the cover of this book was carried away -- but not far enough -- in a feeble attempt to show dictionary, buying, and guide syllabified and pronounced in a style that is clearly an imitation
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The definitions of Moog synthesizer and of Wankel engine need serious revision; women's lib and women's liberation are not syllabified correctly.
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In older dictionaries the words are syllabified mainly to help in pronouncing them; latterly, syllabication has been used largely to find where a word can be hyphenated at the end of a line of text, though, judging by today's newspapers and magazines, one would be sore put to believe that a dictionary had ever been within the grasp of their editors, proofreaders, or the programmers who wrote the hyphenation programs for the automatic typesetting many of them now employ.
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