Hyphenation of contravenes

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

con-tra-venes

Definitions of contravenes:

1.	Go against, as of rules and laws He ran afoul of the law This behavior conflicts with our rules
2.	Deny the truth of

Last hyphenations of this language

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