Hyphenation of devastate

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

dev-as-tate

Definitions of devastate:

1.	Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
2.	Overwhelm or overpower He was devastated by his grief when his son died

Synonyms of devastate:

verb	lay waste to, waste, desolate, ravage, scourge, destroy, ruin
verb	overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake

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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.