Hyphenation of adopt

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

adopt

Definitions of adopt:

1.	Choose and follow As of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans She followed the feminist movement The candidate espouses Republican ideals
2.	Take up and practice as one's own
3.	Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities When will the new President assume office?
4.	Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect His voice took on a sad tone The story took a new turn He adopted an air of superiority She assumed strange manners The gods assume human or animal form in these fables
5.	Take into one's family They adopted two children from Nicaragua
6.	Put into dramatic form Adopt a book for a screenplay
7.	Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own She embraced Catholicism They adopted the Jewish faith

Synonyms of adopt:

verb	follow, espouse, choose, take, select, pick out
verb	borrow, take over, take up, accept, take, have
verb	assume, take on, take over, take office
verb	assume, acquire, take on, take, change
verb	take in, take
verb	dramatize, dramatise, write, compose, pen, indite
verb	espouse, embrace, sweep up, accept

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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.